Girl, 16, wanted by gardaí following high speed car chase

A bench warrant has been issued for the arrest of a 16-year-old girl, who was a passenger in a stolen car that twice rammed gardaí during a high speed chase.

The girl, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, flung bottles at gardaí who had taken up pursuit, the Dublin Children’s Court had been told.

The warrant was issued when she failed to turn up for her sentence hearing today.

In September, the girl pleaded guilty to travelling as a passenger in a stolen car, on October 1, 2006, at Pine Forest Road, Glencullen in south County Dublin.

"She was in the car which rammed a patrol car on two occasions. There were two juveniles in the back seat and they threw bottles at the gardaí as it followed them," Detective Garda Ultan Sherlock of Stepaside station had said.

The stolen car later came to a halt when it crashed.

The west Dublin girl had no previous convictions and at the time her relationship with her mother had deteriorated.

"She had been thrown out of the family home but her mother has since allowed her to return," the court had heard earlier.

She left school after achieving good results in the Junior Certificate.

"Since then she has not been doing anything and has been getting into trouble, she would be anxious to get her life back on the right path," her counsel had said in pleas for leniency

Her counsel had also said she had not been involved in the theft of the car but had taken a lift from the driver.