Dublin teen spared sentence for online harassment of BBC journalist

Judge Kelly noted he could no longer activate the deferred juvenile detention order and imposed a two-year probation bond with conditions. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish TimesAn “obsessive” Dublin youth has been spared jail and was handed a two-year probation supervision order for sustained online harassment of a BBC journalist.

The youth, now 18 and an adult, faced sentencing on Wednesday. The court has heard he had a range of complicated disorders. The teen’s distraught mother reiterated comments about the help offered so far and being let down by the Health Service Executive . The youth had no further charges pending, though concerns were raised about recent, but non-threatening, messages to two young women. One declined to make a statement, and the other woman’s complaint did not amount to harassment.

He praised investigating officer Det Garda Ken McGreevy and wished the youth’s “devastated” mother well, adding she had done all she could.

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