Rapist carried 'kicking and screaming' from court

An Eritrean national facing sentence for rape had to be carried screaming and kicking by prison officers across the Round Hall of the Four Courts to a cell after he was deemed too dangerous to be kept in court.

Bereket Mekonnen (aged 18), of no fixed abode, had been scheduled to appear at the Central Criminal Court in relation to a sentence date being fixed but when Ms Justice Maureen Clark arrived on the bench in Court 3, she found he had been and gone.