In 2002 he was handed a lifetime driving ban for causing the death of a 15-year-old schoolgirl who was hit by a stolen car he was driving
Belfast Magistrates’ Court(Image: Justin Kernoghan)
A Belfast man who killed a schoolgirl in a so-called joyriding incident more than 20 years ago has appeared charged with further driving offences.
Appearing in the dock of the city’s Magistrates Court on Monday, Henry ‘Harry’ Marley was charged with driving while disqualified and driving without insurance on 15 March this year.
The court heard that after police received information that Marley had been driving a car in the car park of residential area, officers contacted the 43-year-old.
A solicitor for Marley highlighted that having been contacted, Marley stood outside Grosvenor Road PSNI station “for half an hour waiting on them.”
Applying for bail he told the court that Marley, with an address at Tollgate House on Bradbury Place in South Belfast, made full admissions and “could not have done any more in the circumstances.”
Conceding that Marley has a significant record, he submitted that in recent times “he was rebuilding his life until this extremely regrettable incident.”
“At some stage it will have to go to the Crown Court but the arraignment may be some time off,” said the lawyer.
District Judge Alan White said that with Marley’s partner willing to sign as a surety, he would grant bail.
Marley was freed on his own bail of £300 with a surety of £500 and a condition that he has to reside at his home address.
In 2002 Marley was handed a lifetime driving ban for causing the death of Debbie McComb by dangerous driving.
The 15-year-old schoolgirl was crossing the Springfield Road when she was hit by a stolen car being driven by Marley. He was handed a nine-year sentence in 2003 and although he appealed it, the sentence was later upheld by the Court of Appeal.
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