Tuesday, August 14, 2007

'Mooning' student in African jail

An Irish student has spent almost three weeks locked up in Senegal after an alleged cheeky prank went wrong.

Patrick Devine, from the seaside village of Dunfanaghy, Co Donegal, was arrested last month after dropping his trousers and "pulling a mooner" outside the home of one of the country's governors in Saint Louis.

The Queen's University Belfast engineering student had travelled to the west African state earlier this summer in a group from the Teaching and Projects Abroad (TPA) scheme to work with street children.

It is understood the 19-year-old pulled the stunt as part of a series of dares made up by members of the TPA group.

It is the third spot of trouble the student suffered on his volunteering trip to Senegal. He suffered a bout of chicken pox and had to have part of a toe amputated after a severe infection.

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