Ireland Named in reporting
Thomas Lake
1 report across 1 case, 19 May 2022 to 19 May 2022
Key facts
from every report naming them- Named as
- Victim
- Offences
- Hijacking; false imprisonment; public order (threatening gardaí)
- Where
- Co. Donegal
- Reporting
- 1 report, 19 May 2022 to 19 May 2022
- Outlets
- irishtimes.com
Cases
latest first- Man jailed for 2015 taxi hijacking in Donegal Hijacking; false imprisonment; public order (threatening gardaí) · Co. Donegal
On 4 March 2015, a 43-year-old man, Alan Luukas, jumped into the back of a taxi in Moville, County Donegal, and pretended to have a gun, forcing driver Thomas Lake and passenger Danny Murphy to drive 18 miles across the Border to Derry. The victims reported the incident to gardaí the following day, but for six years there was no sign of Luukas despite attempts to contact him at his address in Derry. He was arrested on 2 July 2021 following a public order incident in Moville. In May 2022, Luukas was sentenced at Letterkenny Circuit Court to two and a half years for hijacking and false imprisonment, with a concurrent one-year sentence for threatening a garda, backdated to his custody in July 2021.
Sentenced, 19 May 2022Victim · 1 report
Timeline
every report naming Thomas Lake, newest firstEach entry shows how that report described them.
- 19 May2022Man who hijacked Donegal taxi using only his finger is jailedvictim, Thomas Lake, male, irish (judged from name)Thomas Lake
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