THE driver of the crash that claimed the lives of two teenagers in Clones last year has been jailed for seven years.
Seventeen-year-old Kiea McCann and 16-year-old Dlava Mohamed were on their way to their Largey College debs in the Westenra Arms Hotel in Monaghan town when the car they were travelling in hit a tree on the N54 at Legnakelly near Clones on July 31, 2023.
Earlier this year, Anthony McGinn (61), of Drumloo, Newbliss, pleaded guilty to two counts of dangerous driving causing the deaths of the two girls at Monaghan Circuit Court.
He also pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm to Ms Mohammed’s sister, Avin, in the same accident.
At Monaghan Circuit Criminal Court today, McGinn was sentenced to a total of nine years in prison, with the final two years suspended.
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