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A 16-year-old boy has been taken into custody after being charged with a fatal hit and run in which Deliveroo cyclist Thiago Osorio Cortes was killed in Dublin city center.
Mr. Cortés (28) from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was cycling along North Wall Quay when he was hit by a car around 10:30 pm on August 31 last.
Mr. Cortés, who was a student, was delivering food for Deliveroo at the time of the crash.
He was taken by ambulance to Mater Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Gardaí had requested witnesses and had also recovered a light gray Ford Focus during their investigation.
A teenager was arrested on Friday and taken into custody at Store Street Garda Station under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984. He appeared in an evening session of the Dublin District Court on Saturday, charged with dangerous driving which caused the death of Mr. Courteous and not reporting the occurrence of an injury to Gardaí.
He was placed on remand at the Oberstown Detention Center and will appear again in Children’s Court on Tuesday.
He cannot be named because he is a minor.
The court heard that the boy had no prior convictions, was not working, was not receiving social assistance, and had the support of his mother.
Article 93 of the Juvenile Law establishes that no report will be published or included in a transmission that reveals the name, address or school of any child involved in the process or that includes any data that could lead to the identification of any child involved in the process. .
Mr. Cortes had lived in Dublin with his fiancee Theresa Dantas for the past two years and was studying English.
Mr. Cortés, who was from Brazil, was delivering food by bicycle for Deliveroo at the time he was hit by the car and had started work a few weeks before he was killed.
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