Suspended sentence for owner of Offaly-crash school bus

The owner of a school bus which crashed in Offaly six years ago, causing the death of a teenager, has received a suspended jail sentence for failing to maintain the bus.

The bus lost control and flipped over on a bog road just outside Clara, Co Offaly on April 4, 2006 when the back axle came away.

Michael White, 15, died as a result of “catastrophic injuries” suffered in the crash.

Raymond McKeown, a co-owner of Clara Cabs, River Street, Clara pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to maintain the bus in a condition that was safe and without risk to the health and welfare of persons other than his employees