A man has been jailed for three years for sneaking into his estranged wife’s bedroom and threatening to slit her throat before assaulting her.

A south Dublin man who slashed four neighbours with a knife told gardaí he had smoked cannabis beforehand and had been smoking it every night for about 20 years.

A drug addict caught with €135,380 of cocaine whose father had pleaded for leniency for him has been jailed for 10 years by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.