Gardai are pursuing a clear inquiry in their investigation into the hit-and-run of a 23-year-old Brazilian Deliveroo driver on Halloween night in Cork by a gang of car thieves.

Investigators obtained good descriptions of the two men from Alexandre Athos Pinhero Teixeira, 23, and two other men who had separate interactions with them, also on Oct. 31.

Mr. Teixeira suffered a compound fracture of the leg when car thieves drove him off in a stolen Skoda Kodiaq after chasing him from Mahon to Beaumont on Cork’s south side at 11.50pm.

They caught up with him at the junction of Beaumont Lawn and Woodvale Road, where they knocked him off his Honda 125. One of the men then got out of the car and attacked him.

“They knocked me off the motorcycle with the car, but at that time I was still uninjured. I was fine,” said Mr Teixeira, who is also an English student, as he recounted how he defended himself when a man punched him.

The man then got back into the stolen Skoda and the driver drove the car towards him. He was caught between the car and the motorcycle, resulting in a serious leg fracture.

Mr Teixeira’s description of the two men, both in their 20s, matches those given to police by two men who had separate encounters with the occupants of the stolen black Skoda earlier on October 31.

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At 11pm, a man disturbed the pair by trying to break into cars in Little Island, eight kilometers from the city. When he confronted them, they drove at him as they fled.

At 6am the same day, another man disturbed two men trying to break into a car in Ballinlough, in the south of the town. They threatened him with a knife before leaving.

Gardai were alerted after the attack on Mr Teixeira and members of the force based at Gurranabraher were struck in their patrol car when they tried to stop the thieves on the Old Mallow Road outside the town.

The car thieves made their getaway and the Skoda, which had been stolen from Courtbrack on October 21, was found burnt out in Carrignavar, 12km north of Cork city, on Friday morning.

Gardaí have begun checking for CCTV along the routes to Carrignavar from the town, while they have also collected CCTV footage from Little Island, Mahon, Beaumont and Ballinlough.

Garda sources said they were following the descriptions of the two culprits by Mr Teixeira and the other men, while they are also trying to trace a woman who was with them in Beaumont.