Cork teenager who caused Kimberly O’Connor's death in crash has sentence reduced

The teenager's counsel said the original sentence was an unfair impediment which was being placed on his client as an adult for an offence he had committed as a child

Daniel Wyse of Killiney Heights, Knocknaheeny, Cork city, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of his passenger Kimberly O’Connor (pictured).

A teenage boy who caused the death of a 16-year-old girl and permanent injury to a 17-year-old male in a crash while driving at 119km/h in a 50km/h zone has had his sentence reduced on appeal.

Daniel Wyse (18) of Killiney Heights, Knocknaheeny, Cork city, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of his passenger Kimberly O’Connor and causing serious bodily harm to another male passenger at a hearing at Cork Circuit Criminal Court last March.