The car was found burnt out in a field north of Cork city
The Deliveroo driver, a Brazilian man, was knocked off his bike by the car thieves in the incident on Friday around midnight. Stock photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
Gardaí found the Skoda Kodiaq burnt out in a field in Carrignavar, 12 kms north of Cork city, early on Friday morning just hours after the ramming of the Deliveroo driver in the city. The car was badly gutted in the fire, but investigators are still hoping that garda technical experts will be able to obtain some forensic samples that might help them identify the occupants.
The two male of occupants of the Skoda were challenged by two men in the Little Island area of east Cork at around 11pm on Thursday night when they noticed them tampering with a car. The two men confronted the car thieves, but the thieves managed to drive off, with the driver of the Skoda attempting to knock down one of the men who just managed to jump out of the way.
The car thieves fled the scene in the stolen Skoda and later rammed a marked garda patrol car on the Old Mallow Road on the northside of Cork City at around 2am on Friday morning. The Skoda had been stolen from Courtbrack near Blarney on October 21st and gardaí are trying to establish where the thieves hid the car before they went on the rampage on Halloween Night.
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