A 17-year-old boy is to face the Circuit Court over an attack on a man who was wrongly beaten up in his own home in Dublin over a “suspicious” Facebook message.<\/p>\n
The boy, who cannot be named because he’s a minor, appeared at the Dublin Children’s Court on Monday, charged with aggravated burglary.<\/p>\n
He was accused of entering the north Dublin house as a trespasser to commit assault causing harm to the resident (52) on a date in September last year.<\/p>\n
Detective Garda Nicholas Duane outlined the allegations, telling Judge Brendan Toale that a van carrying two men and the teenager pulled up outside the complainant’s address.<\/p>\n
One of the men first went to the house and spoke to the resident, then returned toward the van, at which point the teenager approached with the other adult male.<\/p>\n
There was another exchange, and they walked away before turning.<\/p>\n
The court heard the teenager ran at the man, swung a punch at him, knocking him to the ground just inside his door, which was followed by multiple kicks and punches.<\/p>\n
He suffered bruising to his head, neck and upper body but did not require hospital treatment, but took painkillers after a visit to his GP.<\/p>\n
CCTV footage was viewed in court.<\/p>\n
The judge noted that the complainant did not require hospital treatment but had suffered injuries to his upper body, head and neck.<\/p>\n
The preliminary hearing was told that the incident stemmed from a Facebook message response to the accused’s sister.<\/p>\n
She had posted an advert for babysitting, and the accused found the message suspicious and went to the address provided, using the Eircode.<\/p>\n
Detective Garda Duane was satisfied that the complaint was “completely innocent” and had nothing to do with the earlier social media message.<\/p>\n
Cecilia N\u00ed Choile\u00e1in BL, defending, submitted that the youth was less mature than the two other adults involved.<\/p>\n
She added that he would plead guilty if the Children’s Court accepted jurisdiction and that it was the appropriate venue to hear the case.<\/p>\n
After viewing the CCTV footage, the judge said he had considered the intensity of the assault on the man.<\/p>\n
The court heard that the boy made admissions upon arrest and expressed remorse.<\/p>\n
The judge held that the case should be sent forward to the Circuit Court, which has wider sentencing powers.<\/p>\n
The boy, who was accompanied to the court by his parents, was remanded on continuing bail to appear again in June to have a book of evidence served on him.<\/p>\n
He cannot be named because he is a minor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old boy is to face the Circuit Court over an attack on a man who was wrongly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-467214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}