Man hijacked woman’s car

A woman who stopped to assist a man on the side of the road was the victim of a hijacking and yesterday the sentencing judge said the case was too serious to impose sentence without giving it further consideration.

Judge Gerard O’Brien remanded Vincent Morey, aged 23, in custody yesterday until May 10 for sentencing at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

The judge noted from the evidence of Det Garda Mick Dolan that this latest crime represented a serious escalation in Morey’s criminal behaviour.