Judge approves €9k damages for teen wrongly accused of stealing can of coke

Luke Wall had also been falsely imprisoned in a small room while security checked CCTV coverage of the alleged theft at Tesco

The 15-year-old was wrongly accused of not paying for a can of Coca-Cola. File photo

A judge has approved a €9,000 damages settlement offered to a teenager who was pulled back into a Tesco store and wrongly accused of not paying for a can of Coca-Cola.

Barrister Maeve Cox told Judge John O’Connor in the Circuit Civil Court today that 15-year-old Luke Wall had also been falsely imprisoned in a small room while security checked CCTV coverage of the alleged theft on December 30, 2018.