Youth said he would pay someone to attack alleged victim, court told

A Dublin youth charged with witness intimidation told gardaí he would pay someone to attack his alleged victim, a court was told yesterday.

The boy (aged 17) had been arrested and brought before the Dublin Children's Court on Monday last charged with two counts of threatening, intimidating and putting a teenage boy, who was a witness, in fear, with intent of causing justice to be obstructed, in Crumlin, in Dublin, on March 5 and 6 last.