Cross-border driving ban ‘might have saved Shane’, says heartbroken mother

A heartbroken mum says her son could still be alive if a cross-border driving ban scheme had come in earlier.

Julie Patton’s eldest son Shane was just 18 when he was killed by banned driver Eamon Lynch.

Lynch had almost 500 previous convictions when he hit Shane near his home in the Co Donegal village of Drumkeen in July 2012.