A Dublin man who is already serving a life sentence for stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death was sentenced to three years today for seriously injuring her mother on the same date.

A Dublin man who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death and seriously injured her mother has been convicted of murder and serious assault by a jury in the Central Criminal Court.

A man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend and stabbing her mother could have lost control because of severe paranoia and very poor impulse control caused by "a continuum of abuse" in his childhood, a psychiatrist told a murder jury today.