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11/06/2008
Boy Faces Court For Possessing €180,000 Of Heroin
A 16-year-old boy has been served with a book of evidence and sent forward for trial to the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court over a €180,000 heroin seizure.
The boy had been charged earlier at the Children's Court with possessing heroin at an address in Clondalkin, in Dublin, last December.
The case was deemed too serious to be kept in the Children's Court and was subsequently moved to the Circuit Court, which can impose lengthier sentences.
Judge Patrick McMahon explained to the teenager that if he wished to use an alibi as part of his defence he must give the details to the State within two weeks.
He explained the meaning of an alibi to the boy who indicated he did not understand.
The court had heard that he has been out of school for the last two years.
Earlier in the case it was revealed that the Health Service Executive had previously tried to offer the teen help by taking him into voluntary care, but his mother refused.
The boy, who was accompanied to court by his mother, also faces sentence on a later date in the Children's Court for separate Public Order Act offences.
(DW)
The boy had been charged earlier at the Children's Court with possessing heroin at an address in Clondalkin, in Dublin, last December.
The case was deemed too serious to be kept in the Children's Court and was subsequently moved to the Circuit Court, which can impose lengthier sentences.
Judge Patrick McMahon explained to the teenager that if he wished to use an alibi as part of his defence he must give the details to the State within two weeks.
He explained the meaning of an alibi to the boy who indicated he did not understand.
The court had heard that he has been out of school for the last two years.
Earlier in the case it was revealed that the Health Service Executive had previously tried to offer the teen help by taking him into voluntary care, but his mother refused.
The boy, who was accompanied to court by his mother, also faces sentence on a later date in the Children's Court for separate Public Order Act offences.
(DW)
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