A 17-year-old Dublin girl has pleaded guilty to carrying out an armed raid at a service station, while brandishing an imitation gun made from duct tape.
The girl, who can't be named because she's a minor, appeared at Dublin Children’s Court today.
She was charged with the theft of €179 in cash as well as €73 worth of cigarette papers from the Applegreen service station on Parnell Road in Dublin 12 on a date in January last year.
She faces an additional charge for producing an implement covered in black duct tape, shaped to look like a firearm, during the raid.
The court heard she was 16 at the time, and acted as an accomplice to a man who was also armed.
Judge Brendan Toale adjourned sentencing the girl for gardai to obtain victim impact statements from two shop workers.
The girl, accompanied to court by her mother, had no prior criminal convictions.
The judge described a pre-sentence probation report as "reasonably positive".
Earlier, Detective Garda Eoin Hickey told the court the girl “made no reply to charge after caution”. There was no objection to bail. She met gardai at Crumlin station by appointment to get charged.
The Director of Public Prosecutions recommended the girl should face trial on indictment in the Circuit Court, which has more sentencing powers unless she pleaded guilty in the Children's Court.
The stolen property was recovered.
