Boy, 17, guilty of wrecking cars with industrial paint

AN unemployed 17-year-old boy, who owns a ’06 jeep and got free legal aid, today refused to pay €5,215 compensation after he was found guilty of wrecking three cars with industrial paint.

The teenager had been found guilty at his Dublin Children’s Court hearing for criminally damaging the cars by pouring industrial paint over them, at Castlecurragh Heath, in Mulhuddart, Dublin, in the early hours of February 2 last. The north Dublin boy had denied the allegations.