Witness intimidation case adjourned in Children's Court
The case of a Dublin youth, who was charged with witness intimidation, was adjourned today at the Children's Court pending directions from the DPP.
The boy (aged 17) had been charged at the Dublin Children's Court with two counts of threatening, intimidating and putting a teenage boy, who was a witness, in fear, with intent of causing justice to be obstructed, in Crumlin, in Dublin, on March 5 and 6 last.
Today, judge Heather Perrin consented to an application to put the case back for four weeks for directions from the DPP to be obtained.
The court has heard that the boy told gardaí he would pay someone to attack an alleged victim in an attempted robbery case. The teen is awaiting trial at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court over the incident but has had his bail revoked as a result of the intimidation allegations.
Earlier the court had heard that the threats were allegedly made against a teenage boy whom the defendant is accused of trying to rob at knife-point.
The court had heard that the teen allegedly told a gardaí following his arrest “I am going to pay someone to have his face banjoed.”
The alleged victim had told the court that the accused boy had twice made threats to him. He alleged that the accused said: “The next time I see you I am going to beat the head off you.”
He said that on the second occasion, the following day, the teenager approached him in a park and threatened to stab him.
In evidence the defendant had said that he “snapped” due to the pressure of his impending Circuit Court case.
