Stabbing of car owner ‘was attempted murder’

A VICIOUS thief who stabbed a young man in the neck, then stole his car, was trying to murder him, the surgeon who patched up the deep wound told the victim’s father.

Brian Kelly, a 23-year-old South Dubliner, is in a stable condition following the unprovoked attack, but he only narrowly escaped death as the wound to his neck was just a fraction away from his jugular vein.

His father, George, said: “It was touch and go at one stage because the surgeon that operated on him told me that it was only a fraction away from the jugular and there was nothing they could do if that was the case. There is one major stab wound which is very deep. As the doctor said it was so deep it was an attempt to murder him ... to see him down in the hospital there with the tubes and everything, it’s terrible, it’s heart-breaking. I am cracking up over it.”