A man who hijacked a woman’s jeep as her nine-year-old child was in the back seat has avoided having his time in jail extended.
The victim, Bernadette Moran (37), is the wife of the Donegal football team doctor. She was in Dublin with her three children for an All-Ireland quarter-final in Croke Park when Christopher Coakley (21) pulled her out of her jeep .
He ignored her pleas to let her get her child from the backseat but the woman managed to flee with the child as Coakley was distracted by trying to work the jeep’s controls.
Judge Desmond Hogan sentenced him to three years which is to run alongside a three-year sentence he is serving for a firearms offence. Coakley of Belvedere Place pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to hijacking the jeep at Mountjoy Square on August 5th, last year.