A teenager asked a group of young men “who wants to be stabbed?”, before stabbing five of them, a court was told yesterday.
In all, the now 19-year-old stabbed seven people in a single incident – one of them was a young man who was on his first night out after recovering from cancer and he was stabbed twice in the heart.
The unprovoked attack was described by Judge Michael O’Shea as “frenzied” and like “a horror scene”.
The accused pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to six of the victims and he admitted the more serious offence of assault causing serious harm in relation to the seventh victim, who was just 16 and recovering from cancer.
Judge O’Shea imposed a six-year jail term for the attack on the 16-year-old, three years for stabbing a number of pub customers and four years for each of the attacks on other young men. The case was heard at Dundalk Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.
The court heard the accused was asked by his father to go drinking on April 9th, 2010.