Victim’s friend appeals for hit-and-run driver to come forward

A friend of the Frenchman who was killed in a hit-and-run incident in Cork last week has issued an emotional appeal for the driver to come forward.

Paris-based Eve-Marie Leroy, a close friend of Gabriel Jean Lege, who died after being knocked down in the city last Thursday, said his family is distraught.

“We need to know what happened to try to accept and understand this surreal fact,” she said. “I know that to err is human, but I do not understand the cowardice. I really hope that the driver of the van will produce himself [to the police] for his honour and out of respect for Gabriel.”