No jail time for boy who beat man with iron bar and racially abused his wife

Accused, aged 13 at time of attack, spat at victim's wife and subjected her to racial slurs

A boy who beat up a man with an iron bar and made racial slurs against his victim's wife when he was aged just 13 has been given a deferred detention sentence.

The teenager, who is now 15, attacked the couple as they were travelling on a Luas in Dublin in December 2019 — spitting a sweet at the woman and making racist comments before stealing the man's rucksack and hitting him repeatedly with an 18cm iron bar.