A drunk driver who killed a pedestrian and injured two gardaí has been given 240 hours’ community service in lieu of a four-year prison sentence and disqualified from driving for four years.

FOUR gardaí were last night found not guilty of 15 counts of assault, false imprisonment, trespass and forcible entry after a five-week trial in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The jury on the trial of four gardaí accused of locking a woman in a bathroom as her teenage son was allegedly assaulted in bed has been sent home for the night.

A mother was locked in a bathroom while her son was beaten by four gardaí who attacked him as he slept in bed, a court heard today.

The trial of four gardaí accused of beating a young Dublin man with batons after breaking into his home has been adjourned until next Tuesday.