Phone records to be used in schoolboy's gun case

Mobile phone records are to be used in evidence against a Dublin schoolboy charged with possessing a semi automatic pistol and 20 rounds of ammunition, a court heard today.

The boy, aged 16, had been charged at the Children's Court. under the Firearms Act with possession of a Smith and Wesson nine millimetre semi-automatic pistol, and 20 rounds of ammunition at Dorset Street, in central Dublin on July 14 last year, when he was aged 15.