Youth threatened to burn house

A Co Tyrone schoolboy who threatened to burn down the home of a Dungannon businessman after he questioned him about a burglary…

A Co Tyrone schoolboy who threatened to burn down the home of a Dungannon businessman after he questioned him about a burglary at his shop has been sent to a training school.

Cookstown Juvenile Court was told yesterday that the 16 year old youth also assaulted the businessman's 14 year old daughter, cutting her hand with a Swiss army type knife.

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