'Only get in cars with people you trust': Family's plea as man, 45, sentenced to 14 years for fatal crash

The 45 year old driver of a car in which back seat passenger Jillian Thornton was killed in May 2016 has been sentenced to fifteen years in jail with one year suspended.

After being sentenced at Trim Circuit Court yesterday Michael Collins, from St Finians Park in Drogheda, Co Louth apologised to the Thornton family but still insisted that while he was foolish to initiate a Garda chase that he wouldn't have crashed only a Garda car pursuing him hit him and caused the accident.