Judge 'embarrassed' by lack of detention spaces as youth who ransacked home of man in 80's given bail

A judge has described as an “embarrassment” the lack of spaces in a juvenile detention centre as he was forced to grant two youths bail including one accused of a ransacking the home of a man in his eighties.

Judge 'embarrassed' by lack of detention spaces as youth who ransacked home of man in 80's given bail

By Tom Tuite

A judge has described as an “embarrassment” the lack of spaces in a juvenile detention centre as he was forced to grant two youths bail including one accused of a ransacking the home of a man in his eighties.

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