Teen walked to grandmother's after escaping detention centre where he hit director with metal bar, court hears

A teenager who hit the director of a children's detention centre on the head with a metal bar later escaped from the facility by cutting through a fence, a court has heard.

Michael Ward (aged 19) with an address at Gleann Riada, Strokestown Road, Co Longford, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to criminal damage, assault causing harm and assault while attempting to commit theft at Oberstown Children's Detention Campus, Lusk, Co Dublin, on May 29, 2017.