Teen escapes prison sentence in student attack case

A 17-year-old boy who assaulted two Spanish students, who were punched, kicked and dragged along the ground during an unprovoked attack, was today put on probation for nine months and spared a custodial sentence.

The teenager, who is in care, had been convicted at the Children’s Court of assaulting the two women, who are in their early twenties, and the theft of a mobile phone, at the Custom’s House Quays, in Dublin, on October 9 last.