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A 17-YEAR-OLD youth has been convicted of assaulting a schoolboy during a school lunchbreak in Kil- Mut ee
Kilrush District Court heard that a 15-year-old boy — who is from west Clare — was walking along Moody’s Lane on January 9 last, when he met the accused and another individual,
who was not before the court.
The boy was repeatedly hit to the face with a clenched fist. The court was told that the accused urged the other individual to join in. He reluc- tantly did so. The young victim even- tually managed to run away.
He sustained a black eye, soft tis- sue damage to the nose, a lump to the side of the head and two lumps to the forehead.
The accused, who cannot be named because of his age, told the court that the young boy called him and his friend “scumbags and knackers,” and he then hit him.
The accused said the 15-year- old “doesn’t come into Kilrush any neuen
Supt Joe McKeown, prosecuting, asked him, “Why does he not come into Kilrush any more? … Because
of you.”
Supt McKeown added that the ac- cused has made life “a misery” for the boy and his family, but the ac- cused replied that this was not the OF Ton
“They have made my life a mis- ery, he said.
Judge Joseph Mangan convicted the youth of assault and fined him PAULO}