Schoolboy fractured teen’s skull over drug deal

A privately educated schoolboy who fractured another teen’s skull over €50 worth of cannabis has been placed in custody until Monday while a judge considers a sentence.

Schoolboy fractured teen’s skull over drug deal

The 17-year-old boy from Foxrock, Dublin, who cannot be named, pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to his victim at Blackrock, Co Dublin, on January 25 last year.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard yesterday that the boy, then 16, armed himself with a hammer and struck his victim, a secondary school student, on the forehead, causing a fractured skull and internal bleeding. They had never met before.

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