Drug addict who stabbed garda awaits sentence

A drug addict stabbed a now retired garda who confronted him with a chair when he robbed a post-office but was then stopped and held with the aid of two members of the public, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard.

Jason Campbell (aged 26) of Donomore Crescent, Tallaght will be sentenced by Judge Michael White in February for this offence and a series of other armed robberies committed in October and November 2004.