Farmer must pay €100k over knife incident

A 67-year-old sheep farmer, who produced a knife during a road rage incident, has been ordered to pay €100,000 to the 61-year-old victim in what the High Court judge called an act of inexplicable savagery.

The victim grabbed the blade of the knife when it was slashed in his direction and he suffered irreparable damage to his dominant hand.

Mr Justice Michael Hanna made a decree for €100,000 at the High Court and said allowance could be made for €20,000 previously paid when the defendant was convicted of the assault at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.