An application to have an Algerian asylum-seeker deported after he admitted slashing tyres near his home was adjourned yesterday. In Dublin District Court Mustapha Yahi (24), of Rathgar Road, Dublin, admitted possessing a six-inch lock knife and three charges of criminal damage on Rathgar Road between September 4th and 11th.
Ms Caroline Egan, defending, said Yahi had been drinking and was very much alone in Ireland. His parents had been killed in a car bomb in Algeria and he had been living on social welfare here as a political refugee for 10 months, she said.
Garda Colin Coleman applied to have Yahi deported under the Aliens Act but Judge Desmond Hogan said he wanted to see a probation report first and adjourned the case to November 11th.