Revenge-attack boy to be sentenced

A 16-year-old youth is to be sentenced in the new year for beating up a man in a revenge attack

A 16-year-old youth is to be sentenced in the new year for beating up a man in a revenge attack. The boy has pleaded guilty at the Dublin Children’s Court to assault causing harm on May 14th last year.

Garda Cathal Ryan of Kevin Street station had told the court that the injured party, “an older male”, had been “involved in a previous assault incident”.

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