Man who rammed patrol car jailed for six years

A man who rammed a patrol car in a stolen 4x4, injuring two gardaí, has been sentenced to eight years in prison, with the final two years suspended.

One of the gardaí is still on sick leave, more than two years after she was thrown violently around the car in the collision on Blackditch Road, Ballyfermot, Dublin, on Halloween night 2011.

John Cully, aged 42, of Pleasant St, Dublin 8, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to endangerment on October 31, 2011.