Former taxi driver jailed for transporting stolen cigarettes

A former taxi driver who drove a stolen van containing cigarettes worth over €300,000 which had been earlier robbed from two delivery men has been sentenced to four years in prison with the last two and half years suspended.

Aaron O’Driscoll (aged 37) was not present at the scene of the robbery where the delivery men were tied up and left in the back of their van but he was involved in the logistics of the offence.