Getaway driver who 'reprehensibly' used mother's car for gangland murder jailed

John Gibson was a 28-year-old father of two when he died in a hail of bullets after he was targeted by gunmen from a rival gang in a carpark at the Citywest Shopping Centre in Dublin in September 22017

Sentencing Matthew Bell to nine years and three months’ imprisonment, with the final 15 months suspended, the judge said Bell had driven the car which allowed the gunmen to flee the murder scene and had been an 'essential cog' in the gang operation which led to John Gibson’s fatal shooting.

A getaway driver who "reprehensibly" used his mother's car to help gangland murderers escape the scene of a west Dublin hit has been jailed for eight years.

Sentencing judge Mr Justice Paul McDermott noted on Monday that the decision to use his own mother's car indicted Matthew Bell's “lack of suitability to his assigned role” in the gang.