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Schoolboy shooting case adjourned | |
(about 4 hours later) | |
The case of a 72-year-old man accused of shooting a five-year-old boy in a County Fermanagh playground has been adjourned for two weeks. | |
The pensioner is accused of unlawfully wounding Darragh Somers and causing him grievous bodily harm. | |
Darragh was shot in the back of the head as he played at St Patrick's Primary School, in Mullanaskea, outside Enniskillen, | Darragh was shot in the back of the head as he played at St Patrick's Primary School, in Mullanaskea, outside Enniskillen, |
He was critically injured and spent two months in hospital. | He was critically injured and spent two months in hospital. |
Surgeons carried out two major operations on the schoolboy to remove the .22 rifle bullet from a from his head. | |
The accused was arrested two months after the shooting and released on police bail while the DPP considered whether he should go to trial. | |
The case was adjourned "by consent" on Monday morning. |