Man jailed for chainsaw attack and stabbing sleeping man

A man who "swiped" at a woman with a running chainsaw and stabbed a sleeping man "virtually all over his body", has been jailed for four years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Martin Stokes, aged 23, of St Teresa's Halting Site, Temple Hill Road, Blackrock, pleaded guilty to possession of the chainsaw and to causing criminal damage with it to a caravan on Dodder Road in Rathfarnham on March 12, 2002.