Boy (17) charged with false imprisonment and threat to kill his social worker

A 17-year-old Dublin boy has been charged with false imprisonment and threatening to kill his social worker who was allegedly…

A 17-year-old Dublin boy has been charged with false imprisonment and threatening to kill his social worker who was allegedly held in her own car against her will and told that her throat would be slit.

The north Dublin youth’s case had been struck out in July due to a delay in receiving directions from the DPP. He was brought back to the Dublin Children’s Court yesterday recharged with producing a knife as a weapon at his home and threatening to kill the social worker there, on June 16th, 2010.

He is also accused of false imprisonment of the same social worker in her car at Seán McDermott Street in Dublin’s north inner city on April 16th last, as well as charges of criminal damage to her vehicle and threatening to kill her on the same date. Judge Ann Ryan granted bail to the teenager, who has yet to plead in the case.