Niamh Kelly said she had hoped for a heavier sentence but was happy Josh O’Brien is 'not walking away and getting away with anything he’s done to me'. Photograph: Collins Courts
A man who left his ex-girlfriend with lifelong injuries after he tried to murder her by stabbing her 50 times has been jailed for 14 years and warned not to contact her.
Sentencing Josh O’Brien (22) today, Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring described the violence he used on Niamh Kelly (21) as “breathtaking”. Her survival was “nothing short of a miracle”, the judge said, but she now lives a “totally different life” and will face limitations and challenges nobody should have to endure.
“All of this was avoidable. All of it flows from the actions of Josh O’Brien.
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