Teen gets 2 years in detention for tourist attack in Cork

The teenager who was the most violent in the attack on a French visitor in Cork City was later seen on CCTV giving a youth a celebratory high five and yesterday he was sentenced to two years in detention.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin ordered that the teen in question be kept in Oberstown detention centre until his 18th birthday. Thereafter he will be under the supervision of the probation service for two years.

The assailant, aged 16, of 111 Churchfield Avenue, Cork, pleaded guilty to three separate assault and robbery incidents in Cork, all committed when he was 15.