A man has been jailed for three years for subjecting a Garda to a terrifying ordeal during which she was dragged 80 feet along a road as she hung from a car door, only for the driver to then push her to the ground with the back wheel of his speeding vehicle rolling over her ankle.
Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard that Det Garda Catherine McCarthy - the first woman ever to be appointed to the Divisional Drugs Unit - went to a car at Creagh in Baltimore on April 8, 2021 having witnessed Martin Keohane (34) buying a couple of hundred euro worth of cannabis from a dealer.
She told Mr Keohane to stop and identified herself as a member of An Garda Siochana. Mr Keohane of of Derrygareen, Skibbereen, Co Cork attempted to drive off. Det Garda McCarthy tried to take his car keys out of the ignition.
