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Galway Advertiser

September 29 2005

Law catches up with man five years after ROYAL VILLA motoring offences Oriental Restaurant

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A Garda had to wait five years to see justice done at Galway District Court this week when the law finally caught up with a man he had arrested in 2000 for motoring offences. Thomas Ward (26), no fixed abode and formerly of 50 Gilmartin Road, Tuam, was arrested twice on the same date by Garda Damien Flanagan on June 10 2000, and

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charged with dangerous driving and two counts of driving without insurance. The accused subsequently failed to appear in court to answer the charges and bench warrants were issued on various dates for his arrest. Garda Flanagan, who has been promoted to the rank of Sergeant since his first encounter with Ward over five years ago, gave evidence this week that he was on duty in Salthill on June 10 2000, when he observed a car, being driven by the accused, coming out of Drom Chaoin housing estate at high speed at 5.20am. He pursued the car as it travelled at speed down the road skidding as it took a right turn. Ward abandoned the car, but Sergeant Flanagan said he recognised him and arrested him at the scene. Ward was charged with dangerous driving and not having insurance or driving licence At 10pm that night, Sergeant Flanagan again returned to the same housing estate where he again found Ward driving without insurance. Judge Mary Fahy noted that at least three bench warrants had been issued by various judges for Wards arrest in the intervening years for the offences before the court. Defence solicitor Michael McDarby said his client was now married with two children and the dangerous driving was on the lower scale because there had been no other traffic around at that hour of the morning. Sergeant Flanagan agreed and he informed the court that Ward was currently in custody, on remand in relation to other matters. He said Ward had 20 previous convictions going back to 1997, mostly for road traffic offences and he had also been driving in June, 2002, while already disqualified. Judge Mary Fahy sentenced Ward to a total of eight months in prison and disqualified him from driving for four years. Recognisances were fixed in the event of an appeal.

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