Teen gets five months for witness intimidation

A 16-year-old boy who tried to intimidate a witness to stop her giving evidence against a man accused of vandalising her house, was given a five-month sentence by Judge Bryan Smyth at the Dublin Children’s Court today.

The north Dublin boy pleaded guilty to a trying to persuade the woman, who is in her late thirties, against giving evidence in the man’s forthcoming District Court trial.