Dubliner gets three years for stabbing

A Dublin man who is already serving a life sentence for stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death was sentenced to three years today for seriously injuring her mother on the same date.

Last November, a jury in the Central Criminal Court convicted Declan Burke (aged 29), with a last address on the South Circular Road, Dublin 8, of the murder of Ms Jennifer Wilkinson (aged 24) at her home in the Rise, Boden Park, Ballyboden, Dublin on December 13, 2000 and of assault causing serious harm to her mother, Mrs Mary Wilkinson, (aged 57) on the same date.