Teenager who slashed woman might strike again

GARDAÍ said a teenager who slashed a woman as she walked her dog may strike again.

The woman, in her early fifties, suffered cuts to her arm, side and abdomen in the seemingly motiveless attack in a quiet Dublin suburb. The hooded teenager, between 14 and 16, ran up behind the victim as she walked her dog down Griffith Avenue at Marino, North Dublin, around 8pm on Wednesday.

As she turned he slashing her, cutting her five times.