State application to reactive suspended sentence is rejected

An application by the State to reactivate a suspended sentence given to a 18-year-old last year after he drove a stolen car during a high-speed Garda chase has been rejected by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

Ian Ledden (aged 18) performed a "showing-off" handbrake turn that caused the car he was driving to become airborne, where it turned 180 degree before it almost landed on two youths.