Girl receives €20,000 after she was trapped in electric gates at age 7

A passer-by, hearing the screams of the seven-year-old girl whose head and neck were trapped in electric gates, helped in forcing them open and freeing her, the court heard.

A passer-by, hearing the screams of a seven-year-old girl whose head and neck was trapped in electric gates, helped in forcing them open and freeing her, the Circuit Civil Court heard today.

Barrister Alannah McGurk told Judge Kathryn Hutton that the terrifying incident took place a short distance from Layla O’Neill’s home in an apartment block at Marrsfield Avenue, Clongriffin, Dublin 13.