‘I wasn’t driving, I was in the pub after robbing cash’
A man accused of driving a Skoda Octavia up on a footpath to swerve past a Garda checkpoint denied driving that day and said he was out drinking after robbing cash from a bookies.
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A man accused of driving a Skoda Octavia up on a footpath to swerve past a Garda checkpoint denied driving that day and said he was out drinking after robbing cash from a bookies.
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