A 14-year-old boy has been charged with attempting to murder another teenager in a stabbing in West Belfast last weekend.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at the city's Youth Court.
He was charged with the attempted murder of 15-year-old Mr Thomas McErlean, who was stabbed in the head during a fight at Ardmonagh Gardens in the Turf Lodge area.
A detective told the court the boy made no reply when he was charged at Ballymena RUC station.
He said they later recovered two small knives at the scene of the incident.
Magistrate Mr Desmond Perry remanded the boy in custody until tomorrow and indicated that if the papers were in order he would consider releasing him on bail.
The injured boy is a son of Thomas McErlean, one of three mourners killed in Milltown Cemetery in 1988 during a gun and grenade attack at the funeral of IRA members shot dead in Gibraltar.