The Court of Criminal Appeal has doubled the three-year sentence imposed on a teenager for dangerous driving causing the deaths of two girls almost four years ago.
David Naughton, 19, was sentenced to three years in Ennis Circuit Court last year after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing the deaths of 16-year-old Stacey Haugh and 13-year-old Lorna Mahoney. Stacey's brother, Karl, survived.
They were backseat passengers in the car being driven by Naughton on 17 October, 2003. Naughton was just 15 at the time.
Lorna's mother, Geraldine Mahoney, had pleaded with the Director of Public Prosecutions to appeal the leniency of the sentence.
This morning, the Court of Criminal Appeal ruled the appropriate sentence was six years in prison.
At his trial in October last year, Ennis Circuit Court heard Naughton had led a 'feral existence' from a young age, with no parental supervision.
He had also been sexually assaulted as a young boy.
