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23/03/2009
Dublin Man Jailed For Hit and Run
A Dublin man has been jailed for seven years after killing a 20-year-old English student in a hit-and-run three years ago.
Eric Doyle of Whitechurch Avenue, Ballyboden, in County Dublin, was already banned from driving for four years when he knocked down and killed Lilly Hastings-Bass on the Rathgar Road on the 26th of November 2006.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard today that when questioned, the 44-year-told Gardai that a traveller was responsible for the accident.
He was sentenced to seven years in prison and disqualified from driving for life.
Doyle has 39 previous convictions for road traffic offences and was banned from driving during the time of the incident.
(DW/BMcC)
Eric Doyle of Whitechurch Avenue, Ballyboden, in County Dublin, was already banned from driving for four years when he knocked down and killed Lilly Hastings-Bass on the Rathgar Road on the 26th of November 2006.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard today that when questioned, the 44-year-told Gardai that a traveller was responsible for the accident.
He was sentenced to seven years in prison and disqualified from driving for life.
Doyle has 39 previous convictions for road traffic offences and was banned from driving during the time of the incident.
(DW/BMcC)
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