Youth to go on trial for assaulting officer

A Dublin youth will go on trial in May accused of repeatedly punching and kicking a prison officer in the head.

Dublin Children’s Court has heard the prison officer allegedly received a beating when he tried to break up a fight between two young offenders at Wheatfield Prison on June 5 last year.

The youth was arrested at his north Dublin home and brought before the juvenile court charged with assault causing harm to the officer.