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Addict will serve no extra time for hit-and-run death
A CHRONIC addict on his way to by declan brennan buy drugs when he ran down and Witnesses said the pedestrian light killed a 14-year-old boy has been was green for Conor and that the given a 20-month jail sentence. When gardaí arrested Ruadhan speeding car ‘came out of nowhere’ Tracey, 33, two months after the hit and hit him. Tracey said he panicked, drove off, and run, he told them he knew it was because he had knocked the boy collected his drugs in the city and ‘got down, saying: ‘Conor Hickey, I will f***ed up’ but was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol when he never forget that name.’ Tracey told gardaí after his arrest he hit the boy. John Hickey, the vicfelt numb since he learned tim’s father, said: ‘Before oF the news the boy died. December 2011, life for He claimed the lights were my family was very difgreen and said: ‘I took my ferent and as close to pereye off the road for one fect as you could get. second and then bang. I ‘It’s impossible to desaw a shadow. I didn’t think scribe the effects a trageit was a person.’ dy like this has on a famHe told them he looked ily. It’s like a tsunami that back and saw the commohits a family. tion on the road but didn’t Killed: Conor Hickey stop because he had no tax or insurance. TURN TO PAGE 4
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