A driver who left his dying friend in a car which he crashed after drinking has been jailed for four years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
24-year-old Paul Warner of North Circular Road, Dublin 7, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death in the Phoenix Park during the early hours of 8 April 2008.
Gardaí told the court that 24-year-old Warner was showing his friend Mark Carroll a car that he was planning to sell to him.
Warner lost control of the car, crashed into a metal fence and one of the rails impaled Mr Carroll in the passenger seat.
The court heard Warner had been drinking during the day.
Warner fled the scene, asking someone along the way to call an ambulance.
A woman found Mr Caroll's body in the car.
Judge Frank O'Donnell suspended two years of the sentence after hearing that Warner had expressed remorse and had suffered post traumatic stress after the incident.
