A 17-YEAR-OLD youth who escaped from gardai and prison officers while attending last Monday’s sittings of Monaghan District Court was apprehended in the St Davnet’s grounds/Rooskey Vale area of Monaghan town in the early hours of Tuesday morning, a Garda source has confirmed to the Northern Standard.
The episode is a virtual a carbon copy of a similar escapade that occurred almost a year to the day earlier, when the same young defendant escaped from prison officers and gardai after being remanded in custody at the court on 20th June 2016. On…