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Drunk driver has sentence increased

Belfast - Teenager has sentence increased to seven years
Belfast - Teenager has sentence increased to seven years

A teenage drink driver who crashed killing two men has had his jail sentence increased to seven years by the Court Of Appeal in Belfast.

Christopher McGinn, 18, was originally jailed for four years after he crashed into two cars on the Dublin Road in Newry in October 2006.

A 44-year-old taxi driver and a 26-year-old man from south Armagh died in the crashes.

The Appeal Court judges ruled that the original sentence was unduly lenient.

McGinn, from Camlough in south Armagh, who was 16 at the time of the incident, had been driving a car he had bought for £200 just hours before the accident.