Parents of youths in custody ‘must know their rights’

How parents whose children are accused of crime are dealt with must change, say senior legal practitioners.

For example, parents should be accommodated overnight at garda stations.

Solicitor Brian Keenan of Keenan Fitzgerald told the ‘My Lawyer, My Rights’ seminar this week that parents can be confused as to whether they have automatic access to a lawyer if their child is arrested.