Killer motorist fails to get license back early after 'driving while banned'

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Seosamh McGonigle killed pal John Hegarty after speeding away from a pub in Co Donegal in July 2015.

A motorist who killed his friend has failed to get his license back early after the dead man's sisters claimed they saw him behind the wheel while banned.McGonigle was driving at speed before he hit a grass verge, lost control of his Toyota Corolla and then crossed the road and struck a large boulder.Mr Hegarty was a backseat passenger but died at the scene at Burnfoot.

McGonigle, now 26, and from Glackmore in Muff, applied to have his license restored at Letterkenny Circuit Court after serving two thirds of his ban. Mr Magee said his client was now working in landscape construction with a company in Wicklow and his father drove him everywhere. However, two of Mr Hegarty's sisters, Ms Rachel Hegarty and Ms Michelle Lynch, said they had separately witnessed McGonigle driving different cars in Inishowen on different occasions.

 

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