Four schoolgirls wrongly accused of shoplifting were 'extremely upset', court told

The court heard a security guard had said to them: “You are robbing. I want to search your bags.”

An offer of €5,000 each for defamation of the girls’ character was offered as settlement.

Four school friends who were wrongly accused of robbing in Northside SuperValu, Dublin, were extremely upset when a security guard insisted on searching their bags, a judge heard today.

Judge John O’Connor was told in the Circuit Civil Court that the then 12-year-olds, including twin sisters, had been stopped in the store in August 2018 and told they had been recorded on video robbing in the shop.