Steve Collins in court over fatality

High Court proceedings have been issued against Steve Collins, the father of murdered Limerick man Roy Collins, after he accidentally knocked down and reversed over an 89-year-old Limerick woman, causing her fatal injuries.

The civil proceedings, seeking personal damages, have been made by Conor O’Sullivan, aged 26, a grandson of the deceased, Maura O’Brien, of Milford Grange, Castletroy, Co Limerick, who was with her the morning she died. Time has now been extended for the trial to proceed to hearing, after the proceedings were issued last November, nine months after the accident.

Mr Collins, who is represented by Holmes O’Malley Sexton solicitors in Limerick, declined to comment after a jury brought in a verdict of accidental death during an inquest at Limerick Coroner’s Court.