Man jailed for car hijack and Garda chase

A Romanian national has been jailed for four years after he walked along the M50 before hijacking a car at Dublin Airport and getting involved in a dangerous chase with gardaí.

Petrica Lucaci, aged 26, had a minor accident at an M50 toll booth before he abandoned his car and walked for a number of hours to Dublin Airport.

He knocked down a taxi-driver after driving onto a pedestrian median while trying to escape in a BMW he had just hijacked.