Driver who killed mother freed on appeal

A man who killed a young mother and seriously injured her 15-week-old child, when he hit them with his car, has had the balance of a two-year jail term suspended on appeal.

He was in a ‘micro-sleep’ when the accident happened.

Dublin man Anthony Handley, 64, of Whitethorn Grove, Artane, had pleaded guilty, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, to dangerous driving, causing the death of Olivia Dunne, 31, and serious bodily harm to Éabha Dunne, in Balbriggan, on January 17, 2014.