Jail escapee caused death of two teens

THE driver of the car in which two Cork city teenagers were killed earlier this year had been an escaped prisoner.

James Simms was on the run from Shelton Abbey Prison having escaped more than six weeks before thefatal Knocknaheeny crash.

The disclosure came at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday where Simms, 28, of no fixed address, was jailed for four years. A second accused, Philip Murphy, 41, of 58 Killala Gardens, Knocknaheeny, Cork, was jailed for six years.