Man jailed for slitting throat of flatmate

A Kerry resident who slit his housemate’s throat in a random attack has been jailed for seven years.

Paul Lestrange, aged 40, told his victim to write a will prior to the unprovoked assault and after cutting the man’s throat with a bread knife told him: “I told you it would end badly.” He stopped his housemate and neighbours from helping the injured man until he was overpowered and disarmed.

Lestrange, of Rosdedara, Killarney, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing serious harm to James McGuirk and production of a kitchen knife at North Circular Rd, Dublin on January 15, 2015.