Jail for gang's getaway driver who rammed car into Garda patrol car after they tore safe from wall

A garda car was rammed by the getaway driver for a crime gang who had just jimmied a safe off the wall of a house in Cork and sprayed the area with a fire extinguisher to prevent the gathering of DNA evidence.

The driver - Laurence Connors from Cherryfield Way halting site, Firhouse, Dublin - has been jailed for eight years by Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.