Teenage boy tried to murder woman he met on social media

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Court hears 15-year-old slashed victim’s neck near the sea front in Dún Laoghaire

A teenager tried to murder a woman he met on social media after suggesting they take a selfie at the water’s edge inGardaí later found a book of drawings in his bedroom, containing a sketch of someone being cut up with a knife. The words, ‘serial killer’, had been written on another page.

The 17-year-old was accompanied to court by his parents, who sat beside him in the area of the room reserved for accused people. He asked her to participate in a threesome but she declined, and made it clear that she was not interested in any form of a sexual relationship. They met at the entrance to Dún Laoghaire Shopping Centre shortly after noon that day and walked to York Road, where the accused asked her to go into a vacant house. She declined.They walked to the promenade and he suggested going into the old disused baths. She declined.“At his request, they went down to the water’s edge to take a selfie,” Det Garda Treacy told the court.

She passed out due to the stranglehold. When she came around, she was lying on the ground near the water’s edge, her hand was bleeding and there was blood around her head. Her clothes had been cut. She also had wounds to her right arm and thumb, consistent with defensive stab injuries. She had a fast heart rate and low blood pressure, consistent with significant blood loss. She had other symptoms that showed she probably had blood in her lungs.Although she was unable to speak that day, she managed to speak with assistance the following day. She showed gardaí the communications she’d had with the accused and indicated that the person in the photos was her attacker.

 

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