Runaway teen sent to secure detention centre

A troubled Limerick youth who absconded from Limerick University Hospital after being placed there by the HSE as a temporary care measure was in a secure detention centre last night after handing himself up.

The 16 year old was brought before a children’s sitting of Limerick District Court after he earlier went to Henry Street Garda Station with his father.

Judge Eugene O’Kelly was told by Sgt Donal Cronin that a bed was now available for the boy at Oberstown detention centre, from where he had been turned away last week due to lack of space.