supervision order

Supervision orders should become automatic but also the powers of the gardai to intervene and to punish those who do not comply with requirements of the sex offenders register [need to be changed].

The boys were each sentenced to three-year supervision orders.

These images fill a void." Norris, who has spent ten months in prison while waiting for the trial, was remanded in custody until Friday August 7, while a presentence report is arranged, looking at the possibility of releasing him into the community under strict supervision orders.

But handing a suspended sentence along with drug rehabilitation and supervision orders to a criminal with more than 100 previous offences is still a bold move.

The other two youngsters, aged 12 and 13, were made the subject of supervision orders last month, but sentence on the third boy was adjourned for psychological reports after the court heard he had set fire to things in the past.

But the new arrangement will allow supervision orders signed in one part of the UK to be enforced in others for the first time.

Nine under-18s got supervision orders. Det Insp Martin Peters said: "We hope this draws a line under last year's events."

These images fill a void." Norris, who has spent ten months in prison while waiting for the trial, was remanded in custody until Friday August 7, while a pre-sentence report is arranged, looking at the possibility of releasing him into the community under strict supervision orders.

First Minister Jack McConnell has done a deal with Westminster to make supervision orders enforceable on both sides of the border.

Previously the youth has received a string of conditional discharges, supervision orders and even driving bans, even though he is too young to drive.