Jailed for 14 years over ‘vicious’ knife attack on former partner

A 50-year-old man who launched a “vicious” knife attack on a woman he was in a relationship with 15 years previously has been jailed for 14 years.

Denis Leahy, of Queen St, Dublin 7, was charged with attempting to murder Rose Kenny at School Street Flats, Dublin 8, on September 23, 2014.

Leahy pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Rose Kenny after the case had opened to the jury at the Central Criminal Court on June 22.