Man accused of kidnapping a six-year-old boy with Down's syndrome

A man has been sent forward for trial accused of kidnapping a six-year-old boy with Down's syndrome who became separated from his family in Dublin city-centre.

David Ryan (aged 27) with an address at Foxdene Avenue, Clondalkin in Dublin, but who was described as being of no fixed abode, was originally charged with false imprisonment of the boy at Liffey Street on June 11 last.