Jailed for vicious mugging of boy and robbing €1

A teenager who left a schoolboy with life-threatening injuries, including a bleed on the brain, after taking €1 from him has been jailed.

Sean Rausch, aged 18, was also sentenced for seven other offences including muggings, attempted robberies and numerous driving offences arising out of a high-speed garda chase.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard he drove the stolen car on three wheels while leading eight patrol cars and a garda helicopter on a high-speed chase. He was unlawfully at large at the time having previously been arrested for his part in the mugging and attempted mugging of two groups of schoolboys. The serious assault on another schoolboy occurred the same day as the robberies.