The sentence of a drunk driver who killed a woman and paralysed her friend in Cork has been reduced from seven years to four on appeal.
Sean Casey of Cooragannive, Skibbereen, Co. Cork was four times over the limit when he crashed his BMW into a pole in April 2013.
Jo Petford spoke outside court after Sean Casey got three years taken off his original sentence.
Sean Casey was four times over the legal limit when he decided to drive five of his friends home on April 8th 2013, and was driving at 80km/hr when he lost control of his BMW at a roundabout in Skibbereen and crashed into a steel pole, killing Megan Johnston and leaving her friend Kate Petford paralysed from the neck down.
His sentence was reduced after the court ruled his original punishment wasn’t in line with other decided cases.
Kate is now in the full-time care of her parents, and her mother Jo hopes what happened to her daughter will be a wake-up call for others.