A teenage boy charged with robbing £37,500 from a Securicor van was put back into custody yesterday after a court heard how he had breached bail conditions and was observed spending £1,000 on designer clothes over the weekend.
The boy (16), who cannot be named, is accused of robbing a security van in Drumcondra, Dublin, on October 22nd last. The money has not been recovered.
He was arrested a week after the alleged offence and was given bail on condition he stayed out of a specific part of Dublin city centre and lived at a rehabilitative centre for youths from Monday to Friday.
He could go to his aunt's home in west Dublin at the weekends provided he observed a curfew and signed on each Monday at the local garda station.
Yesterday he was brought before Dublin District Court on an arrest warrant after four garda∅ spotted him in the city-centre which he had been specifically excluded from as part of his bail.
Judge Catherine Murphy remanded him in custody to St. Patrick's Institution to appear in the Children's Court on November 20th.