Drink-Driving Special Branch Cop Pleads Guilty

national | crime and justice | other press Tuesday November 15, 2005 21:05 by Insurrection

dangerous/drunken driving

Former special-branch member Frank Hayes has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of Gordon Geary.

The 53 year old retired garda also pleaded guity to charges of drunk-driving and failing to stay at the scene and causing serious injury to three women. He has been remanded on bail for sentencing this December. On the night of July 24th 2004 he managed to get into two different accidents while drunk injuring two women in the first and killing a man in the second. The former garda was working as a cab-driver at the time.