One-month sentence for youth’s escape

A 16-year-old boy has been given an additional one-month sentence for escaping from a Dublin detention centre following a “stand-off” with staff.

One-month sentence for youth’s escape

Four teenagers managed to get hold of a ladder which they used to abscond from the Oberstown youth detention facility in Lusk on July 25 last.

Three of them were recaptured within days.

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