Suspended sentence for youth convicted of mugging

A youth who was found guilty of taking part in a violent mugging has been given a six-month suspended sentence by Judge Bryan Smyth at the Dublin Children’s Court.

Judge Bryan Smyth heard that the defendant, aged 17, who had denied the robbery of a 17-year-old boy, at Beechwood Lawn, in Killiney, south Dublin, on August 25 last year, had previously been given a suspended sentence for assault causing harm.