Stabbing teen sent for trial
A Dublin teenager has been sent forward for trial before a judge and jury for allegedly stabbing a man during an unprovoked attack last year.
The 17-year-old boy had been charged at the Children's Court with assault causing harm arising out of an incident in Ballymun, in Dublin, in the early hours of May 25, 2009.
In an outline of the allegations, Garda Aidan Kelly had told Judge Bryan Smyth that the victim had stopped to talk to the defendant and another youth.
“A knife was produced by both males, they assaulted him in an unprovoked attacked,” he had said adding that the man suffered four stab wounds to his lower back which would leave him permanently scarred.
The court heard that following his arrest, the boy made “certain admissions.”
Judge Smyth refused jurisdiction and held that the case should be sent forward for trial to the Circuit Court, which has wider sentencing powers.
The teenager, who is in custody on remand, was served with a book of evidence today and Judge Smyth made an order sending him forward for trial.
