Patrick Ward jailed for stabbing neighbour with scissors

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Patrick Ward was jailed for three years for assault causing harm and producing a scissors at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 14 October 2019. The attack punctured his neighbour’s lung after he stabbed her three times in her home.

The report said Ward had pleaded guilty over the June 2018 attack. Judge Martin Nolan accepted that Ward was very drunk, but said this was no excuse; he also accepted that the victim had made a full recovery and that Ward had expressed genuine remorse.