A retired taxi driver was jailed for four years for his callousness in driving away from the scene of an accident in which an eminent psychiatrist suffered fatal injuries.
Denis McSweeney (75) of Pouladuff Road in Cork was jailed as a judge was told he had panicked and left the scene at the Airport Road after Dr Martin Lawlor (49) had been struck by his taxi while walking back to his hotel.
Judge Sean O Donnabháin rejected the explanation at Cork Circuit Criminal Court - and said leaving the scene of such an accident was tantamount to callousness .
The Lawlor family told the former taxi driver they would never forgive him for leaving the doctor dying on the roadside.