Judge calls for looting case to be prioritised

A judge has called for the Director of Public Prosecutions to prioritise the case of a Georgian teenager who was arrested for looting during February’s riots in Dublin.

Judge Bryan Smyth heard at the Dublin Children’s Court that the DPP’s directions were not yet available. The 17-year-old boy, an asylum seeker, who has been in Ireland since last October without any parents, was arrested for looting during the riots that erupted during the “Love Ulster” rally.