Drug dealer jailed for attempting to run over man

A drug dealer who attempted to run over a man he wrongly believed was involved in a nightclub altercation with his girlfriend has been jailed for seven years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

John Paul Kelly (aged 22), of Cherrywood Villa, Ballyfermot injured the man when he ran his car at him on April 10, 2006 before running it at the victim’s girlfriend and driving it over her hair.