Man faces sentencing over knife attack on family

A 24-year-old father of one, who attacked four members of a family with his ornamental knife, will be sentenced next week for killing one of them and harming the others.

Dubliner David Brannock was last month cleared of murdering Jason ‘Jasper’ Flannery but found guilty of the manslaughter of the father of three on September 13, 2012, at St Joseph’s Way, Poppintree, Ballymun.

A Central Criminal Court jury also convicted him of causing serious harm to the deceased’s brother-in-law, John O’Neill, and assault causing harm to Mr Flannery’s daughter, Jade Byrne, and son, Anthony Byrne. He was cleared of assault causing harm to their mother, Claire Byrne.