2024-07-19
Tourist 'lucky not to have bled to death' after city centre machete attack
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: John Hogan (33), who has 29 previous convictions including those for the possession of knives, was sentenced to five and a half years in prison by Judge Nolan, who described the attack as "particularly savage". The sentence was backdated to December 30, 2023, when Hogan went into custody on this offence.