Prank on colleague led to carpenter’s death, inquest told

A CARPENTER was killed when a practical joke between workmates went tragically wrong and ended with him going under the wheel of a car, an inquest was told yesterday.

Derek Clarke wept openly in Dublin City Coroner’s Court as he heard how his close friend and workmate Peter O’Flinn died after going under the wheel of a car.

Mr O’Flinn had been trying to lift the windscreen wipers on Mr Clarke’s car when the vehicle moved forward.