16-year-old sentenced to 12 months for his part in vicious gang mugging

A teenage boy who held a man while three accomplices took turns punching him during a vicious mugging on Dublin's Harcourt Street has been given a 12-month sentence.

The boy, aged 16, pleaded guilty at the Dublin Children's Court to the robbery of the man, who is in his thirties, in the early hours of July 16 last.