Getaway driver involved in murder bid by organised crime gang gets 10 years

Lee Boylan's life was saved due to a "fortuitous fluke" when his gunshot wounds formed an abnormal connection between an artery and a vein that stopped him from bleeding out.

Gardaí at the scene of the shooting in 2019 of Lee Boylan who suffered injuries to his shoulder and neck as he sat in his van in broad daylight in a highly populated area in west Dublin. File photo

The getaway driver in a bid by an organised crime gang to murder Lee Boylan in west Dublin has been jailed for 10 years.

Passing sentence today, Mr Justice Michael White said this was "a well-planned attack" with a sophisticated degree of surveillance and was carried out "at the behest of a criminal organisation", which perceived that Mr Boylan had been involved in a previous attack.