Mugging case struck out of court
A charge against a 15-year-old boy arrested for mugging a man who was allegedly hit with a bottle and left with shards of glass lodged under his eye, was struck out at the Dublin Children’s Court today.
The boy had charged with robbery of a MP3 player and €10 from a man in Temple Bar, in Dublin, in the early hours of July 19 last.
Garda Niall Murray, of Pearse Street station applied for a strike out telling Judge Ann Ryan that the complainant had “withdrawn all cooperation and no longer wanted the case to go ahead.”
Judge Ryan acceded to the request and struck the case out releasing the teen who is taking part in a training course.
Earlier Garda Murray had said “the injured party received very serious wounds around his eye from a glass bottle, from speaking to the doctors they are waiting for a specialist to see him as he had quite a lot of glass lodged under his eye.”
