Taxi thief caught after car ran out of petrol

A young Wicklow father and his accomplice, who had robbed a taxi driver, were caught after they drove off in his car and ran out of petrol.

Dylan Keegan Duignan, aged 21, was one of two men who held up the Dublin driver, after he had taken them from O’Connell St to St Margaret’s Park halting site, in Ballymun.

Duignan, from The Green Meadow Vale, Arklow, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to the robbery of 62-year-old Leslie Leady on October 14, 2014.