A FERMANAGH man was sentenced to two 15 years to life sentences in San Francisco Superior Court on June 5 for the deaths of a 79-year-old taxi driver and his passenger in 2005.Kevin McGuinness, 46, who was born in San Francisco but moved back to Fermanagh with his parents as a child and later returned to the U.S in the late 1980s, crashed into a taxi killing driver Zareh Soghikian and Duke University student Tyler Brown, 21.McGuinness was twice the legal drink limit at the time of the accident. He also had three previous misdemeanor drunken driving convictions, one in San Francisco in 2001, one in Sonoma County on St. Patrick's Day in 1997 and one in Sonoma in October 1996, according to court records.He was sentenced to three years of probation in 1996 but was ordered to attend an anti-drunken-driving program and ordered not to drink. In 1997 he was put on probation and made to enroll in an alcohol treatment program, which he finished in 1999.In August 2001, California Highway Patrol in San Francisco arrested McGuinness for driving under the influence. This time he was sentenced to a home dentition and put on probation once again. In 2002 he was arrested for driving with a suspended license, but the case was dismissed.McGuinness, who was part of the San Francisco's Ulster GAA club, was denied bail at his hearing on November 30, 2005 after he was charged with two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of manslaughter and two counts of drunken driving causing bodily harm. A police report of the incident claimed that McGuinness panicked after his Toyota truck hit a car and while fleeing the scene he plunged into the taxi cab killing Soghikian and Brown who died instantly. Two other people were injured. Erica Terry Derryck in the office of District Attorney Kamala Harris told the Irish Voice on Tuesday that McGuinness' sentence will begin immediately and will be served concurrently.