Michael Power sentenced for stabbing homeless man

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Michael Power was sentenced to 10 years, with the final 18 months suspended, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 6 October 2017, after convictions for assault, causing serious harm and possessing knives. The attack took place in Dublin’s south inner city on 27 June 2015.

A jury convicted Power of two assaults, causing serious harm and two knife-possession offences. The victim suffered stab wounds, required 48 stitches and had his spleen removed; the court imposed concurrent sentences and a five-year no-contact condition after Power’s release.

The sentence was backdated to July 2015. The source also records that Power had 33 previous convictions and had completed rehabilitation courses while in custody.