A 16-YEAR-OLD boy is to face trial for stabbing a security guard in the neck after he had stopped a shoplifter.
The boy had been charged earlier at the Children’s Court with assault causing harm to the man and production of a knife at a Centra shop on Sundrive Road in south Dublin.
It had been decided that his case was too serious to be dealt with in the juvenile court and that it should be transferred to the Circuit Court, which has wider sentencing powers.
The teenager was served with a book of evidence yesterday and Judge Elizabeth McGrath ordered that he would face trial at the next term of the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
In an outline of the evidence, Garda Thomas Tighe had said it was alleged the security guard had stopped a girl from stealing a bottle of wine at the shop. The boy “came around the corner and lunged at the member of security staff”.
“He had a fairly large knife concealed under his sleeve and he drew that and lunged at the security member,” Garda Tighe had said.
The security man was stabbed in the neck and the cut was 1cm in depth.
The court had heard that at the time of the incident the teen had been “in the throes of drink and drugs”.