2021-06-08
Addict hijacked car outside creche
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: In a victim impact statement handed into court, the victim, who was not present for the sentence hearing, said he had just dropped his daughter off at creche and driven 100 yards up the road when McDonnell flagged him down, causing him to brake suddenly. Handing down sentence, Judge Melanie Greally said McDonnell was "in a drug induced psychosis" at the time. "He wanted a car to drive to Tipperary and he terrorised this person who had just dropped their child off at creche and whose wife was pregnant".