Man whose dangerous driving caused passenger's death has sentenced reduced

A Donegal farmer, who appeared to be asleep as he drove on the wrong side of the road before a fatal road crash in which his passenger died and another motorist was injured, has had his seven-and-a-half-years prison sentence reduced to one of five years by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

The Court of Criminal Appeal today held that the appropriate sentence for Oliver Shovelin, who himself suffered brain trauma as a result of the accident, was one of five years.