Boy, 15, stabbed student and tried to hijack car, court told

A 15-year-old boy stabbed a college student in the back with a broken bottle and then tried to hijack a car by punching the driver repeatedly in the face, shortly after the victim had collected his pregnant wife.

Detective Garda James Bugler testified at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday that the teenager, who cannot be named, appeared to have been on a crime spree in the Bishopstown area of Cork in the early hours of Jun 6.

Judge Patrick J Moran described the defendant as a “wild young man”.