IN her victim impact statement to the court, Cathleen Lawless said Jason Gormley walked away from the crash leaving her alongside her fatally injured husband, trapped in their car with the smell of burning. She feared it would go up in flames.

AFTER a drinking session with friends, a businessman drove his 4x4 from a Co Limerick pub on the wrong side of the road and ploughed into a car killing a retired Clonmel secondary school teacher, Limerick Circuit Court heard.