Saudi Arabian Embassy to pay for nunchuk attack on student

The Saudi Arabian embassy will pay €2,000 in damages caused by a master’s degree student who set upon a fellow student with nunchucks, a Dublin court has heard.

Mohammed Abduljabbar, aged 29, a karate enthusiast from Saudi Arabia, broke into student accommodation in the early hours of the morning and assaulted his victim, with whom he had a “history of animosity”, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard.

Abduljabbar, with an address in Willow Park Avenue, Glasnevin, Dublin, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated burglary and two counts of criminal damage to two glass doors at Gateway Student Village in Ballymun on June 25, 2016.