Pretty French student Barbara Riouall sat a few feet from her attacker today and revealed how she lives day to day – with little thought for the future.

A Lithuanian man who tried to kill a young student by slitting her throat as he mugged her to get money for heroin was jailed today for 15 years.

A Lithuanian man who attempted to murder a French woman outside her Dublin apartment by cutting and stabbing her throat with a knife is expected to meet face-to-face with his victim tomorrow.