Man gets probation for petrol bomb attack on house of family of 10

A petrol bomb was hurled at a house in Cork City where a couple and their eight children were living and yesterday the man who was convicted of the crime was put on a probation bond for a year.

David Madden, 20, of 88 Ballinderry Park, Mayfield, Cork, denied having anything to do with the petrol-bombing during a trial at Cork District Court, but he was convicted of the crime.

Sentencing had been adjourned a number of times so that the probation service could report on him.