Man jailed for crime spree

A young man who rammed a pursuing garda patrol car in a stolen jeep after colliding with a van while driving through Baldoyle at high speed has received a six year sentence with three years suspended.

Paul Dunphy (aged 22) was also observed by gardaí breaking red lights, zig-zagging through traffic and making other attempts to ram their patrol car in a stolen Toyota Landcruiser in the early hours of the morning of September 27, 2008.