Christopher Coakley sentenced for hijacking jeep

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Christopher Coakley was sentenced to three years for hijacking a jeep at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 27 February 2013. The sentence runs alongside a three-year term he is serving for a firearms offence. Coakley pleaded guilty after pulling a woman from her jeep near Mountjoy Square while her nine-year-old child was in the back seat. The woman escaped with her child when Coakley became distracted trying to operate the vehicle’s controls.

This report covers an earlier stage of the case. Later developments are not reported here.