Dylan Meade jailed for dangerous driving causing serious harm

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Dylan Meade received a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence with two-and-a-half years suspended, leaving a one-year unsuspended custodial term. Judge Catherine Murphy imposed the sentence.

The report calculated that remission of a quarter of the one-year custodial term would reduce his time in prison to nine months, with an anticipated release in September 2016. Nine months was the report’s estimate after remission.

Meade pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing serious harm, failing to stop after an accident, driving without a licence and driving without insurance.

He was driving on Ongar Distribution Road, Blanchardstown, Dublin, on 2 August 2013 when he hit cyclist Alex Dobresku, who suffered a brain injury.

Meade was found to have no drink or drugs in his system at the time. In a Garda interview, he said he had taken over driving from his brother-in-law because his brother-in-law was “out of his head on pills”.

Conditions attached to the suspended portion of the sentence included probation supervision, abstinence from drugs and alcohol, and attendance at mental health appointments.