Youth allegedly slashed with eyebrow blade after making eye contact with man on a bus

29-year-old has been charged with assault causing harm to the boy, 16

The accused was refused bail when he appeared in court yesterday.

A youth was beaten, “slashed”, and scarred from ear to the back of his neck after briefly making eye contact with a man on a double-decker bus in Dublin, a court heard.

Christopher Dunne, aged 29, of no fixed abode, but claiming that he could reside at the address of a family member on Sheriff St Lower, Dublin, was charged with assault causing harm to the boy, 16, in the city’s south side on May 18.