€8k for boy told to drop trousers

A BOY has been awarded €8,000 in compensation after he was asked to drop his trousers in a shop to prove he had not stolen a bottle of coke.

The boy was aged 9 at the time.

Barrister Colm MacCarvill told Dublin Circuit Civil Court that in June 2007, Lee Connor Quirk had been approached by the manager of Lena Stores Limited, trading as Jordan’s Centra, Springfield Shopping Centre, Tallaght.