Man gets suspended sentence for fatal road accident case

A man was killed on his 58th birthday while laying out cones for a traffic survey and today the victim's family said they did not want to see a jail sentence imposed on the driver of the lorry that killed him as there had been enough suffering in the case.

John O’Byrne, aged 28, of 20 St Mary’s Terrace, Rockenham, Passage West, Co Cork, was banned from driving for five years and given a one-year suspended jail sentence at Cork Circuit Criminal Court today on the charge of dangerous driving causing the death of William Wallace at Bandon Road, Bishopstown, Cork, on July 19, 2005.