Girl, 14, on acid during ‘savage’ attack in Dublin

A then 14-year-old girl was on acid when she took part in a “savage” Dublin city-centre gang mugging of a man who was beaten unconscious, a court heard.

The girl, now 15, pleaded guilty at the Dublin Children’s Court to her role in the robbery of the Chinese national, aged 28, at Liffey St in the early hours of July 10 last and was remanded on bail for sentencing.

She is one of seven young people who had been charged; unlike most of them, the juvenile court accepted jurisdiction for her case due to her age, plea of guilty and lack of prior criminal convictions.