Man admits to hijacking car to 'secure' return to jail

A heroin-addict father of two who told gardaí he hijacked a woman's car with her infant child in it and then tried to rob a pharmacy because he wanted to be returned to prison has been jailed for three years.

Darren Osbourne (aged 37) allowed the woman to take her three-year-old child out of the car after he pointed an imitation firearm at her while demanding the keys but ran away when he couldn't start the vehicle.