Terrifying car-jackingleft victim €4k out of pocket to replace car

A woman felt terrorised by a man who approached her on the street with his arms bleeding and forced his way into her car.

Not alone did the woman experience the fear of having her car seized from her but she was also put at a significant loss by having to spend €4,000 on a replacement car after the culprit crashed her car into a wall outside Cork City.

John Forde, of 32 Killala Gardens, Knocknaheeny, Cork, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment with the last year suspended by Judge Sean Ó Donnabháin at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.