Teens threatened man with syringe

Three teenagers, who allegedly surrounded a man and threatened him with a syringe as he walked along the Liffey Boardwalk in Dublin, have been returned for trial to the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The three 16-year-old boys from North Dublin were charged at the Dublin Children’s Court with the robbery of the man, who is in his twenties, at the Liffey boardwalk, at Bachelor’s Walk, on June 1 last.

They were served with books of evidence and sent forward for trial at the next term of the Circuit Criminal Court.

Earlier Garda Paraic Lynch, of Store Street Station, had said it was alleged that one of the trio threatened the man that he would “stick him with a syringe”.

A syringe was not produced but it was alleged that the gang went through the man’s pockets and stole his mobile phone.

The teens are currently on remand in custody.

Jurisdiction to hold the case in the Children’s Court had been refused earlier after a summary of the evidence was heard.