Boy, 17, jailed for attack on foreign nationals

A teenage petrol-sniffing addict, who took part in two attacks on foreign nationals, has been detained for six months, by Judge Ann Ryan at the Dublin Children’s Court.

The out-of-school boy (aged 17) had admitted assault causing harm to a security guard, whom he had called a “Paki b*******” and then bit after he was caught shoplifting, on August 30 last, at Aston Quay, in Dublin city-centre.