Teen detained over attack on security guards

A 14-year-old boy, who stole €300 from a shop and then bit two security guards who tried to stop him, has been detained for one year by Judge Bryan Smyth at the Dublin Children’s Court.

The out of school teenager, who is from north Dublin, pleaded guilty to the theft of €300 from the Aldi Superstore, in Ballymun, last February, when he was aged 13. He was also charged with attacking two of the shop’s security guards on the same date which he also admitted.