Judge approves €20k settlement after laptop explodes as boy, 6, was using it

A judge has described as scary the explosion of a laptop being used by a six-year-old boy at his mum’s dining table.

“You have put the heart cross-ways in me,” Circuit Court president, Mr Justice Raymond Groarke, told barrister, Caitriona Craddock, when she outlined how Shane O’Sullivan’s laptop exploded in flames.

“That’s scary. You’re telling me that none of us are safe, leaving out laptops plugged-in overnight” the judge said.