A man caught with four handguns, a submachine gun and ammunition in a bag after a high-speed garda pursuit has been jailed for seven and a half years.

A judge, who last November rejected a €20,000 settlement offer to a three-year-old boy who lost the top of a finger in a “traumatic incident” involving a creche door, yesterday accepted an increased offer of €40,000.

Efforts are being made to extradite an Englishman to Spain where he is wanted in connection with the murder of a Dublin father of two.

“IT could have happened to anyone.”