Bipolar sufferer has joy-riding sentence suspended

A former Drogheda resident who crashed a stolen car while off his bipolar disorder medication has been given a two-year suspended sentence by Judge Tony Hunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Matthew King (aged 21), drove off in the car leaving the owner, Mr Eoin Devine, standing at the side of the road after he and another man offered to help him when he was having difficulties parking it in Blackrock.