Drink-driving victim 'will need 24-hour care for rest of her life'

A drink driver broke a red light and smashed into another car leaving a Zimbabwean refugee needing 24-hour supervision for the rest of her life, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

Faye Sherlock, a single mother, was more than three times the legal limit when she crashed into the car causing Yvonne Nutuhle to be flung out the rear side window and end up 26 feet away on the opposite side of a dual carriageway at Blackrock in August 2002.