Man who attacked two people with machete gets 5 years

A young American student had her skull fractured by a man who walked up behind her and swung a 2ft machete at her head,resulting in the accused facing into a total of five years in jail yesterday.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin noted that Brian Veale was quite capable of using serious violence. He said it was a very worrying matter that such a man would be armed with a machete after taking drugs.

As a result of pleading guilty to this attack on the young tourist and a similar attack on another man moments earlier, a two-year suspended jail sentence from another court was activated.