Drunk driver who left friend to die gets four years

A driver who left his dying friend in a car which he crashed after consuming up to eight drinks has been jailed for four years by Judge Frank O'Donnell in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.

Paul Warner (aged 24) was doing "handbrake turns" in the Phoenix Park late at night when his car crashed into a metal fence and one of the rails fatally impaled 16-year-old Mark Carroll who was in the passenger seat.