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Driver speeding after death crash | |
(about 3 hours later) | |
A Fermanagh driver who admitted killing four people by dangerous driving was caught speeding on the same stretch of road just weeks after the fatal crash. | |
Daniel McDonnell, 21, from Galloon Gardens, Newtownbutler, was also over the drink-drive limit when his car went out of control and hit a tree. | |
Peter Leonard, Anita Swift, Jonathan McDonald and Danica O'Rourke died in the crash near Lisnaskea in July 2006. | |
McDonnell changed his plea to guilty as his trial was about to start. | |
The BBC has learned that in October 2006, and on the same stretch of the Moorlough Road, McDonnell was stopped by police for speeding. | |
He was doing more than 65mph, when he was a restricted driver and should not have been doing more than 45mph. | |
Daniel McDonnell pleaded guilty | |
He told police: "I was in a hurry. I'm late for work". It was his second conviction for speeding. | |
Adjourning Monday's case for sentencing on 21 February, Judge McFarland warned McDonnell that he would be going to prison. | |
The crash tragedy was compounded when the Swift family were given the wrong girl's body for burial. | |
The body of one of the teenage girls had to be exhumed after it emerged the wrong person had been buried. | |
The two men who died were both aged 21. | The two men who died were both aged 21. |
At the time, the coroner admitted there had been "initial misidentification". | At the time, the coroner admitted there had been "initial misidentification". |