'Evil eye' driver jailed for year

A man who drove a van into a teenager during a drug-induced psychosis and claimed he did it because the victim gave him the ‘evil eye’ has been given a 12-month suspended sentence and an 18-month driving ban at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Larry Thornton (aged 37), of Champions Avenue, Dublin 1, told gardaí he thought "God and the Blessed Mother" were in the van with him and that had not slept well and was hearing voices.