Teen to face trial for alleged slashing

JURISDICTION to hear a case in the Dublin Children’s Court involving a boy arrested for attacking a youth with a glass bottle leaving him scarred and needing plastic surgery was refused today.

The 17-year-old boy was in court facing a charge for assault causing harm, which happened at Park West Avenue, in west Dublin, on May 21 last. The defendant, who is from the north west of Ireland, was aged 15 at the time, Judge Bryan Smyth heard.