A drunk, speeding driver who was jailed for 18 months for a crash that claimed the life of a 16-year-old girl, causing her devastated father "never-ending pain", has had his jail term increased by a year by the Court of Appeal.
Michael Welby (24), of Loughgannon, Roscahill, was sentenced at Galway Circuit Court in July of last year, after he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of teenager Róisín Hession after the car he was driving hit a wall in the townland of Porridgetown, Co Galway, in March 2020.
The sentencing court heard that Welby had been been drinking and speeding on the night while driving a car with defective tyres.
