Eight months for teenager who beat man, 63
A teenager, who knocked a 63-year-old man from his bicycle, then viciously beat him leaving him permanently scarred, has been given an eight-month suspended sentence by Judge Bryan Smyth at the Dublin Children’s Court.
The 17-year-old boy had pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to the man, in Artane, Dublin, on August 20, 2006.