Four-years sentence for teen who hit detention centre director on head with metal bar
A teenager who hit the director of a children's detention centre on the head with a metal bar and smashed up the centre has been jailed for four years.
Michael Ward (19) with an address at Gleann Riada, Strokestown Road, Co Longford, pleaded guilty 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.
