Addict who knocked down and killed midwife jailed

A drug addict who knocked down and killed a mother of four while she was shopping with her sister has received a three and a half year sentence and a 30-year driving ban.

Philip Trimble, aged 35, told gardaí he wished it was him who had died and not the victim. He took to the stand at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to express his remorse to the family.

Trimble, of Oscar Traynor Rd, Santry, Dublin, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of Coombe midwife Frances McCarthy, aged 56, on Middle Abbey St, Dublin, on January 11, 2013.