Car-jack accused teen avoids sentence

A then 13-year-old Dublin boy has been spared a custodial sentence for a terrifying car-jacking during which he beat a man to the head and body with a metal pole, writes Tom Tuite.

The boy, now aged 15, who cannot be named because he is a minor, pleaded guilty to unlawfully seizing and taking control of a 04 reg Ford Fiesta by force and being armed with a large metal pole during the incident in a residential area in Tallaght, in Dublin in August 2016.