COUNCILLOR BRAVELY FIGHTS OFF CARJACKER
the door and proceeded to pull me out. I struggled with him and drove off with him hanging off me.” The man got away and when the Independent representative waved down a car to warn them, they spotted the thug in a field.
Cllr Tenanty drove back to the scene and came upon a couple who had stopped the man from taking their van. He said: “He had broken in and stolen the keys and was heading out the gateway.
“The couple wrestled with him and managed to take the vehicle out of gear and the keys from the ignition. The alleged attacker, who is in his 30s, tried to escape and, Cllr Tenanty said, “had tried to climb a laurel hedge and got stuck in it”. He was still struggling in the hedge when gardai arrived.