16-year-old boy gets sentence for fatal crash

A 16-year-old who bought himself a car online and crashed it later that day, killing his friend, has been sentenced to 16 months’ detention.

The boy, who was 15 at the time and cannot be named as he is a minor, was sentenced yesterday at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The deceased, Dayne Cody, was also aged 15. Three other teenage boys were in the back seat at the time, one of whom had to have 90% of one foot amputated. The other boys had minor injuries.