The 17-year-old boy pleaded guilty at the Dublin Children’s Court
A TEENAGER drove after a cyclist who gave him the finger and stole his bicycle during a road-rage incident in Dublin, a court has heard.
The 17-year-old boy pleaded guilty at the Dublin Children’s Court to dangerous driving in a manner including speeding and theft of man’s bicycle in connection with the incident in Clondalkin last March.
The court heard it happened following an earlier incident in which the cyclist allegedly made a gesture to the teenager who was in car.
After the man on the bike gave him the finger, the youth started driving behind him in an “intimidating manner”, the court was told.
The cyclist became nervous and went onto a footpath however the teenager also drove the car onto the path and followed him for a distance.
The man on the bike turned into a housing estate to hide and was followed.
The teenager stole his bicycle and left the scene but was arrested within minutes, the court heard.
The youth, who was accompanied to his hearing by his mother and his solicitor, had no prior criminal convictions.
Judge John O’Connor adjourned the case until a date in November for a pre-sentence probation report to be furnished to the court.
