State ordered to pay €30k concerning Garda drugs search of 13-year-old boy in church grounds

The State must pay out €30,000 compensation arising from a drugs search carried out by a Garda on a then 13-year-old boy nine years ago.

At Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Kathryn Hutton has awarded €30,000 to Brandon Wallace, now aged 22, for the psychological trauma suffered as a result of a drugs search performed on him by an Ardnacrusha based Garda in the grounds of a church at Westbury on the outskirts of Limerick city on October 2nd 2010.