Truck driver sentenced for four-year-old's death

The father of a four-year-old girl killed after the car she was travelling in was struck by a truck has described how he contemplated suicide in a desperate bid to "hold his little girl again".

The father of a four-year-old girl killed after the car she was travelling in was struck by a truck has described how he contemplated suicide in a desperate bid to "hold his little girl again".

Anthony O'Rourke was speaking at the sentencing hearing tonight, of a Dublin truck driver who was convicted last month of dangerous driving causing the death of Jade O'Reilly from Skerries in Co Dublin, almost three years ago.

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