Prison for Dublin woman who stole an ambulance while drunk

Balfie · 27-05-2011 06:30PM #1

A WOMAN WHO stole an ambulance while she was drunk and drove it through Dublin city streets has been sentenced to four months in prison and banned from driving for four years.
Paramedics were attending to an emergency call out at Hardwicke Street in the early hours of 8 January when 27-year-old Jessica Kavanagh climbed into the driver’s seat and drove away, reports The Irish Times.
She drove in the direction of her home on Sean O’Casey Avenue and was chased by a garda and arrested as she alighted from the vehicle.
Kavanagh pleaded guilty to theft of the ambulance, drunken driving and not having motor insurance at Dublin District Court. Her solicitor said that it was out of character for her to be so intoxicated and that she was devoted to her two children. The defendent had 22 previous convictions.

A devoted mother to her two children, correct me if I'm wrong but a devoted mother isn't someone who goes out an gets so legless that she steals an Ambulance that is on an emergency call, Obviously it had blue lights flashing as they always do, when on an emergency, drives it while so legless, leaving the patient of that ambulance left to wait for another ambulance to come to pick him/her up while in all that time the patient could have died. A devoted mother wouldn't get themselves into such a state that they end up going to a garda cell for the night, an then eventually 4 months away from her children. An the be all an end all for me, is 22 previous convictions. A devoted mother would be showing her two children the rights an wrongs in the world, not going out an getting 22 previous convictions an then getting so drunk as to rob an ambulance an go to prison.

Maybe I'm being a bit too harsh on the woman, I don't know the circumstances, but sweet mother of baby Jesus, that is unreal.

ejmaztec · 27-05-2011 06:31PM

It seems that she was devoted to her convictions, thanks to the drink.

aidan_walsh · 27-05-2011 06:33PM

Being a devoted mother isn't mutually exclusive to being an idiot.

bonerm · 27-05-2011 06:33PM

At least the upside is the children will have 4 months without her influence while under the influence. Maybe they have a chance now of not growing up like her.

Seachmall · 27-05-2011 06:36PM

In fairness just because she went out one night and did something stupid doesn't mean she's a bad mother. For all we know she has never drank before, went out to celebrate something with a friend and drank too much because she doesn't know her limit.

One very, very stupid mistake doesn't make her a bad mother.

Coriolanus · 27-05-2011 06:37PM

Twenty two previous convictions. I wish they'd tell us what, it's hard to really get into the spirit of sharpening the pitchforks and readying the bonfire without knowing all the puerile details.

27-05-2011 06:38PM

Seachmall wrote: »

In fairness just because she went out one night and did something stupid doesn't mean she's a bad mother. For all we know she has never drank before, went out to celebrate something with a friend and drank too much because she doesn't know her limit.

One very, very stupid mistake doesn't make her a bad mother.

They aren't referring to the one stupid mistake, they're referring to all 23 of them

Minstrel27 · 27-05-2011 06:39PM

Stupid bint.

Fremen · 27-05-2011 06:40PM

Her solicitor said that it was out of character for her to be so intoxicated and that she was devoted to her two children. The defendent had 22 previous convictions.

Of course her solicitor said that. It's a sympathy ploy. He's hardly going to say she's a hoebag who deserves to do time.

Bonavox · 27-05-2011 06:40PM

That devoted mother might not have realised it, but her kids might have needed that ambulance if anything were to happen to them while she was getting legless.

bonerm · 27-05-2011 06:42PM

Nevore wrote: »

Twenty two previous convictions. I wish they'd tell us what

Probably all for hugging her kids too hard.

FYI , it's about 1/2 a mile from where she nicked the van to where she lives, so even within the realms of stupidity I don't know why she bothered.

Seachmall · 27-05-2011 06:43PM

bluewolf wrote: »

They aren't referring to the one stupid mistake, they're referring to all 23 of them

Just because she makes 23 mistakes doesn't mea... a **** it; she's a bad mother!

hardCopy · 27-05-2011 06:45PM

Seachmall wrote: »

In fairness just because she went out one night and did something stupid doesn't mean she's a bad mother. For all we know she has never drank before, went out to celebrate something with a friend and drank too much because she doesn't know her limit.

One very, very stupid mistake doesn't make her a bad mother.

Actually it does. Anyone can get drunk once the kids are looked after.

Stealing an ambulance and getting jailed makes you a bad parent

dublincelt · 27-05-2011 06:46PM

Seachmall wrote: »

In fairness just because she went out one night and did something stupid doesn't mean she's a bad mother. For all we know she has never drank before, went out to celebrate something with a friend and drank too much because she doesn't know her limit.

One very, very stupid mistake doesn't make her a bad mother.

Have you read the OP??!!!!

22 previous convictions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah a great mother alright.. :rolleyes:

jmayo · 27-05-2011 06:48PM

Seachmall wrote: »

In fairness just because she went out one night and did something stupid doesn't mean she's a bad mother. For all we know she has never drank before, went out to celebrate something with a friend and drank too much because she doesn't know her limit.

One very, very stupid mistake doesn't make her a bad mother.

You were doing ok until the very next post

Nevore wrote: »

Twenty two previous convictions. I wish they'd tell us what, it's hard to really get into the spirit of sharpening the pitchforks and readying the bonfire without knowing all the puerile details.

Seachmall what do you call 23 stupid mistakes ?

BTW one of those ambulances can be worth a couple of hundred grand or more when they are fully kitted.
This piece of crud not alone took something with high monetary value, it has huge value as a life saving implement and even worse it was on a call.
And you defend that sh**.

4 months sentence will mean she probably spends a month inside and she probably doesn't drive anyways so what use is the 4 years driving ban.

Make the bi*ch clean an A&E for a year and see if that makes her change her attitude.

Seachmall · 27-05-2011 06:49PM

Don't ye people read threads before ye respond. I immediately get 3 responses after I correct my mistake :mad:
:pac:

brummytom · 27-05-2011 06:56PM

To be fair to her, she only thought she was stealing an Ecnalubma

Balfie · 27-05-2011 07:00PM

A MOTHER of two who stole an ambulance during an emergency call-out in Dublin in January has been jailed for four months.

Paramedics had left the ambulance at Hardwicke Street in the north inner city to attend to an elderly woman at about 3am on January 8th last when it was taken.

Jessica Kavanagh (27), of Sean O’Casey Avenue, Dublin, had earlier pleaded guilty at Dublin District Court to stealing the ambulance, drunken driving and not having motor insurance.

A drink-drive test produced a reading of 145mgs of alcohol per 100mls of blood.

Garda Joseph O’Connor had told the court a Dublin Fire Brigade ambulance was taken from outside Rory O’Connor House as two emergency crew were dealing with an elderly woman.

He saw the ambulance going towards Sean O’Casey Avenue. He then witnessed the defendant leaving the driver’s side of the ambulance, before chasing and arresting her.

At the sentence hearing yesterday, defence solicitor Yvonne Bambury told Judge David McHugh that Kavanagh did not go out often and was not “habituated to consuming that level of alcohol”. The defendant had a history of medical difficulties and suffered from panic attacks, stress and anxiety.

Ms Bambury said her client has two young children and “is very devoted to them”. She also asked the court to note that Kavanagh, who was employed in a community employment scheme, had also done voluntary work in her area.

The court heard that Kavanagh, who remained silent during the case, had 22 previous convictions which included motoring offences and one drugs charge.

Judge McHugh imposed two concurrent four-month sentences for the drink-driving and driving without insurance offences. The remaining charge of stealing the ambulance was taken into consideration. Kavanagh was also banned from driving for four years.

The judge set bail in the accused’s own bond of €300 in the event she intends to appeal the sentences

This is the story on The Times website..

145mgs of alcohol per 100mls of Blood, correct me if I'm wrong but the Drink Drive limit here is 35mgs of alcohol per 100mls of blood, 4 TIMES the legal limit, and already convictions for motoring offences..

Sweet Heart of Jaysus it gets worse the more I read about this woman.

Saila · 27-05-2011 07:01PM

4 months :eek: give her 4 years ffs :mad:

Saila · 27-05-2011 07:05PM

brummytom wrote: »

To be fair to her, she only thought she was stealing an Ecnalubma

tbf dont know why they need to write it like that if a person doesnt notice the blue flashing lights, and the ear piercing sirens too the ambulance should just have an RPG mounted on the front to use in these times

Shryke · 27-05-2011 07:18PM

She might not be a bad person. But the previous convictions look bad and as has been said someone could have died. Truly stupid but you never know what the real situation might have been (sheer idiocy aside).

Pauleta · 27-05-2011 07:23PM

She will be out in 2 weeks time with a heroin addiction and an increased sense of entitlement.

saintsaltynuts · 27-05-2011 07:26PM

Four months!?I think she should be shot.Poor kids.

ro_chez · 27-05-2011 07:28PM

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/courts/woman-on-ambulance-theft-charge-2515012.html

Her photo is in the above link, lol!

x in the city · 27-05-2011 07:30PM

Balfie wrote: »

A devoted mother to her two children, correct me if I'm wrong but a devoted mother isn't someone who goes out an gets so legless that she steals an Ambulance that is on an emergency call, Obviously it had blue lights flashing as they always do, when on an emergency, drives it while so legless, leaving the patient of that ambulance left to wait for another ambulance to come to pick him/her up while in all that time the patient could have died. A devoted mother wouldn't get themselves into such a state that they end up going to a garda cell for the night, an then eventually 4 months away from her children. An the be all an end all for me, is 22 previous convictions. A devoted mother would be showing her two children the rights an wrongs in the world, not going out an getting 22 previous convictions an then getting so drunk as to rob an ambulance an go to prison.

Maybe I'm being a bit too harsh on the woman, I don't know the circumstances, but sweet mother of baby Jesus, that is unreal.

sounds like a south cider skanger...

like the ones you meet in bus shelters with prams slugging back a few cans sunday morning

Zebra3 · 27-05-2011 07:47PM

She should have become a guard and battered someone on her day off.

No jail time for that. :rolleyes:

wild_cat · 27-05-2011 07:49PM

ro_chez wrote: »

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/courts/woman-on-ambulance-theft-charge-2515012.html

Her photo is in the above link, lol!

If that "zoomy" yellow bird from angry birds was ever to be put into human form I think it would look a lot like her.

Eleganza · 27-05-2011 08:13PM

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-24739662.html

dates match to bring the age up to 27. might be her, might not.

Drug dealer with the same name.

stovelid · 27-05-2011 08:36PM

Admit it though: everybody has secretly wanted to joyride an ambulance, double decker bus, ice cream van or - especially - a fire engine when they're pissed.

previous user · 27-05-2011 08:39PM

Shocking, truly shocking.

Balfie · 27-05-2011 08:46PM

stovelid wrote: »

Admit it though: everybody has secretly wanted to joyride an ambulance, double decker bus, ice cream van or - especially - a fire engine when they're pissed.

I always wanted to go on the hard shoulder of a motorway when pissed with a high vis, on a pedal toy tractor, an just have a line of squad cars following me as I tear along the motorway at 1kph pissed outta me brain...

Thats just me tho... haha

Prison for Dublin woman who stole an ambulance while drunk

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