Sentenced of drunk driver in Cork reduced
The collision resulted in the death of one woman and paralysed another.
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 in Skibbereen was four times over the limit when he crashed his BMW into a pole on April 8th 2013.
Megan Johnson died in the crash, while her friend Kate Petford was left paralysed from the neck down.
Kate is now in the full-time care of her parents, and her mother Jo says their lives will never be the same again.
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