{"id":624214,"date":"2026-08-06T21:06:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/624214\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T21:06:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:06:27","slug":"girl-15-is-the-most-prolific-offender-in-derry-court-is-told-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/624214\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl (15) is the \u2018most prolific offender in Derry\u2019, court is told \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 15-year-old girl, said by police to be the most prolific offender in the Derry and Strabane district, has been charged with breaching her bail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The teenager, who cannot be named due to her age, was said to have breached her curfew by not returning to a children\u2019s home where she resides on time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A police officer told the court that at 11.20pm on August 4 the girl was reported to have been banging on the door of an address. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Derry Magistrates Court was told the defendant had refused to get into a taxi sent by the children\u2019s home. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/mo-chara-court-case-live-kneecap-rapper-to-find-out-if-terror-charge-will-be-thrown-out-BV3HTFOTE5AQVIFZW5E4OXBNR4\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Mo Chara court case LIVE: Kneecap rapper terror charge thrown out after &#x2018;technical error&#x2019;\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786050386_652_LS75QCFJNRDEPK5NYYT3NROWEE.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/belfast-fleadh-free-live-music-at-custom-house-square-whos-performing-and-what-are-the-stage-times-46YKJWWM5FEJ5ELAGKI6N3SHWY\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Belfast Fleadh: Free live music at Custom House Square - who&#x2019;s performing and what are the stage times?\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/I3XKXNMW55PEFNQTV5PQRGKU4U.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The girl eventually returned home and was arrested and told police she had taken paracetamol and was taken to hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police objected to bail, stating the girl had 26 previous convictions, of which 18 were assaults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The officer also said that the 15-year-old had 43 pending files with the Public Prosecution Service and had breached her bail on numerous occasions, including 4 times in the last 10 weeks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The court was told that the defendant had been released on bail by the High Court on July 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The police officer said that the defendant posed a risk of harm to herself and the public. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Defence counsel Grainne McAnaney said her client found it difficult to manage her time, especially during the summer holidays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The teenager was released on bail, but her curfew was put back to 9pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She will appear again on September 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old girl, said by police to be the most prolific offender in the Derry and Strabane district,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,129322,5,7,8,41016,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-624214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-mckee","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-ulster","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117050605497515416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}