DPP drops charge after guilty plea

The mother of a young man who was killed in a car crash complained today that victims were forgotten and treated with no importance as she criticised the Director of Public Prosecutions for dropping a dangerous driving causing death charge.

A last minute decision was made by the DPP to accept a plea of guilty to a charge of careless driving after a jury had been sworn to hear the case against Thomas Lyons of Muniflugh, Carriganima, Macroom, County Cork, on a charge of dangerous driving causing the death of Shane Cooney, aged 19.