Drunk driver sentenced to 18 months after tragic crash

A drunk driver who broke a red light and smashed into another car leaving a Zimbabwean refugee needing 24-hour supervision for the rest of her life has been jailed for 18 months by Judge Michael White at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Faye Sherlock, a single mother, had no insurance and was more than three times the legal drink 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.