Teen burglar who threatened woman gets 20-month sentence

A teenage burglar, who held a woman up in her house and threatened to stab her, has been given a 20-month sentence, by Judge Angela Ní Chonduin, at the Dublin Children’s Court.

During a cocaine-fuelled burglary, on the morning of New Year’s Day, the 16-year-old boy had broken into a house in Lucan through an upstairs bathroom window.