Teenager who threw mother's handbag into traffic pleads guilty to engaging in threatening behaviour

A fifteen-year-old boy locked himself into his mother’s car outside a garda station after a meeting with his juvenile liaison officer and caused so much difficulty that additional gardaí were required to arrest him, writes Liam Heylin.

At the height of the incident the teenager opened the door only to grab his mother’s handbag from her. He then threw the bag and contents out in front of on-coming traffic. A lorry drove over the bag smashing the phone belonging to the boy’s mother.