Since Bryan’s death, his family and friends have formed The Bru Charity to raise money for Road Safe NI, and a project called The Road Ahead to help families bereaved by road deaths. “For him to appeal against his sentence was absolutely disgusting,” says Joey. Lennon has also been banned from driving for 20 years, but Joey feels it should be for life. The Magills said they were relieved when he failed in the recent attempt to have his jail term reduced. Sentencing Lennon, of Forest Park, Dromintee, County Armagh, in February 2021, Judge Marina Baxter said he’d turned his car into “a weapon”.īut he put the families of his victims through further heartache when he lodged an appeal against his nine-year jail sentence. He pleaded guilty to three counts of manslaughter at Dundalk Circuit Criminal Court. “Seeing Bryan lying on that cold hard slab was the worst moment of my life.”Īs details about the crash emerged, Joey tells of his intense anger at how recklessly Lennon had been driving, and how needlessly he’d caused his death and that of the Faxtons.Īfter fleeing the scene of the crash, Lennon eventually handed himself into police.
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“I had to wait until the following morning to identify him at the morgue at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, in Drogheda, so we kept hoping it wasn’t him. “I was telling them about the scar on Bryan’s face, which he got from falling off a coffee table as a nipper, and they said it looked like him,’’ recalls Joey.
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Bryan’s dad Joey says he’ll never forget the phone call with a garda telling them a young male matching Bryan’s description had been killed.