Hit-and-run driver already banned from driving

A mechanic who fatally injured a student in a hit and run accident and later claimed someone else had been driving his car has been jailed for seven years and disqualified from driving for life.

Eric Doyle (aged 44), had 39 previous road traffic convictions and had been disqualified from driving for four years just two months before the fatal incident as a result of which Trinity College student, Ms Lily Hastings-Bass, lost her life on November 26, 2006. Her organs were donated to medical science.