Man (23) stands trial for alleged firebomb attack on home of Wicklow family who reared him

Myles Connors (23) pictured at Bray Court. Photo: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

Seán McCárthaigh

A young man has gone on trial over allegations he threw a firebomb through the front room of a house in Wicklow whose occupants were a family who had raised him for most of his life.

Myles Connors pleaded not guilty to a charge of criminal damage caused by arson to a house at Glen Ding Way, Blessington, Co Wicklow on June 28, 2022 before a sitting of Wicklow Circuit Criminal Court.