Teenage boy pleads guilty to attempted murder of woman he met on social media, court hears

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A teenage boy tried to murder a woman he met on social media after suggesting they take a selfie at the water’s edge in Dún Laoghaire, where he knocked her unconscious and lacerated her neck.

The sea front along the Queen's Road, Dún Laoghaire Image: Google Maps The sea front along the Queen's Road, Dún Laoghaire Image: Google Maps A TEENAGED BOY tried to murder a woman he met on social media after suggesting they take a selfie at the water’s edge in Dún Laoghaire, where he knocked her unconscious and lacerated her neck.

Detective Garda Daniel Treacy told Paul Burns SC, prosecuting, that the accused had met his victim on the Whisper social media app. He disclosed his name and certain family details and that he was attending psychiatrists for therapy, him having depression, suicidal and intrusive thoughts.“It’s like being a psychopath. You just don’t feel it,” he wrote, saying he was ‘feeling it for the first time’.‘Significant lacerations’

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. She was facing out to sea when he grabbed her from behind in a neck lock. He then moved in front of her and started choking her with his right hand while brandishing a knife in his left hand.

She was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital, where she was found to have a 10cm-deep midline neck laceration, which penetrated her trachea.

 

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