Fugitive crash driver jailed in US

A man who fled to Ireland to avoid charges that he killed three American college students in a 2001 drink-driving crash has been jailed in the US.

A man who fled to Ireland to avoid charges that he killed three American college students in a 2001 drink-driving crash has been jailed in the US.

Frederick Russell was sentenced to the maximum 14 years, three months in prison by a judge who told him he deserved no leniency.

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