8.5-year sentence upheld for attacker who left victim battling for life

A Dubliner who stabbed his friend 17 times with a scissors, leaving him needing two life-saving operations, has lost an appeal against the severity of his eight-and-a-half year jail term. Kenneth Broe (46), of Alderwood Green, Springfield, Tallaght, Dublin 24 was convicted by a jury of assault causi