A MAN who helped to wreck an English visitor's £7,600 car has been given the choice by Judge Kieran O'Connor of three years in jail or paying compensation, starting with £100 in July.
"Your stupid, mindless violence left a visitor who came here to mourn at a funeral without her car," Judge O'Connor told David Plummer (20), of Barry Avenue, Finglas. Plummer, single and the father of two children, pleaded guilty.
Garda John Lynch said Mrs Elizabeth James of London sparked her car at Clonliffe on August 16th, 1995. Some hours later it was taken and eventually left in the Cappagh Fields.
Plummer and another man, Thomas Donoghue (19), of Barry Drive, Finglas, heard the car being driven around and later went and smashed its windows and caused other damage as well as removing its wheels. Donoghue was jailed for two years.