Image: PA Images Image: PA Images A FIREFIGHTER WHO drank up to 15 pints before he knocked down a 27-year-old man walking home from St Stephen’s Day celebrations has been jailed for five-and-a-half years.
He was communicating with a friend via Snapchat and in his last message to her, at 1.55 am, he described how dark it was. He discovered Mr Grimes lying on his back on the grass verge, with his shoes lined up neatly beside him. In an emotional and lengthy victim impact statement read out in court, Mr Grimes’ father, Mark Grimes, described the agony endured by the family as they watched their son ‘Cal’ suffer numerous operations, invasive procedures and blood clots in Beaumont Hospital.
Addressing Keane directly, Mr Grimes Snr said he would never understand how Keane, who was a part-time firefighter and qualified first-aider, could have left his son at the side of the road. He said he often wondered if those critical first hours could have made a difference. He said Keane’s offending was at the highest end of the scale for the offence of dangerous driving causing death.
Christ what a horrific story - will we ever learn , if you have a drink leave the fucking car , a taxi is cheaper then 5 years prison and a lifetime of guilt
Absolutely shocking. The sentence does not represent the severity of the crime. You would not leave an animal on the side of the road if you knocked it down. No memory I very much doubt it.
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