Mother tells how 'life stopped' after 23-month-old daughter was killed by driver high on drink and drugs

A Dublin man who drank a litre of vodka and took two grams of cocaine before he knocked down a toddler in the Phoenix Park last year has been jailed for five years.

Mother tells how 'life stopped' after 23-month-old daughter was killed by driver high on drink and drugs
Tue, 19 Apr, 2016 - 14:34

A Dublin man who drank a litre of vodka and took two grams of cocaine before he knocked down a toddler in the Phoenix Park last year has been jailed for five years.

Ciaran Lane (aged 25) of Ashington Avenue, Cabra, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to dangerous driving causing the death of 23-month-old Vanessa Siatka at Ratra Triangle, Phoenix Park on April 6, 2015.

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CourtsHeathrowPlace: DublinPlace: Phoenix ParkPlace: Ashington Avenue, CabraPlace: Ratra TrianglePlace: Cabra Garda StationPerson: Ciaran LanePerson: Vanessa SiatkaPerson: KatarzynaPerson: VanessaPerson: LukaszPerson: LanePerson: GardaíPerson: JudgePerson: Patrick McCartanPerson: McCartanPerson: Katarzyna PlaszewskaPerson: SiatkaPerson: Katarzyna Plaszewska SiatkaPerson: KasiOrganisation: Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
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