Addict who threatened girl, 6, jailed for seven years

A 'crack cocaine' addict who held a syringe to a six-year-old girl sitting in the back-seat of a car, has been jailed for seven years by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Anthony Clarke attacked little Louise Myron while two other young children, Jane Crawford, aged 7, and her cousin, Caroline Crawford, aged 11, looked on.