A man who slashed four people with a knife in a drug-fuelled frenzied attack during a rave in the Point Depot has been jailed for eight years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.Paul Reilly told gardai he took two ecstasy tablets and cocaine. He believed someone spiked a glass of milk he drank with more ecstasy before he and his friends gatecrashed the rave.Reilly (18), of Coburg Place, Dublin, pleaded guilty to four charges of unlawful and malicious wounding and assault occasioning actual bodily harm variously to four people at the Point Theatre on October 25th, 1996.Det Garda Sean McAvinchey told Judge Cyril Kelly that the raves at the Point had been "a recipe for disaster". One young man died from a drug overdose and a young woman broke several limbs after a fall.Garda McAvinchey told Ms Aileen Donnelly, prosecuting, the victims in Reilly's attacks were injured in three separate incidents.The first victim was a security man who was walking across the Point floor with a colleague and a youth they wanted to check for possible drug dealing. The security man was struck on the back of the head from behind. He needed nine stitches.The next two victims were slashed after one of them bumped into another person and was apologising when attacked without reason by Reilly. This victim's friend came to his aid and was also slashed by Reilly. They needed 11 and 19 stitches respectively.The fourth victim was involved in an argument with another person when attacked from behind by Reilly. He need 26 stitches to his neck and 16 to his face. Judge Kelly said a photograph of his injuries "defied imagination".Garda McAvinchey said Reilly was arrested hiding in an attic in a house in Crinion Strand. The house was being searched for another reason. Reilly was unlawfully at large from Shanganagh Castle at the time of the offence.Reilly made a statement in which he said he began to feel strange and paranoid as a result of the drugs. He was handed the knife when the trouble broke out and just lashed out wildly with it. He only realised fully the next day what he had done.