D v The Director of Public Prosecutions (Approved)

Birmingham P.���������������������������������������������� Neutral Citation Number [2023] IECA 315

2.������ On the 18th of June 2019, two juvenile males were convicted of the murder of a Ms. Anastasia Kri�gal in May 2018. Throughout the trial, and subsequent thereto, these children were referred to as " Boy A " and " Boy B ", respectively. On the date of their conviction, it was ordered by the Central Criminal Court (McDermott J.) that no material, which may tend to identify either juvenile, could be published.

3.������ More generally, s. 252 of the Children Act 2001 (hereinafter "the Act of 2001") operates to the same effect and attaches criminal sanction to such publication. For the purposes of this judgment, the relevant provisions of this section (as in force at the time of the alleged offences) are as follows:

252.�� (1) Subject to subsection (2), in relation to any proceedings for an offence against a child or where a child is a witness in any such proceedings�

(a)���� no report which reveals the name, address or school of the child or includes any particulars likely to lead to his or her identification, and