Chef to be sentenced in kitchen-knife attack

A chef who attacked his former boss with a kitchen knife and another man with a hammer following an evening of drinking will be sentenced next month by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Geoffrey Lavelle (aged 31), of Drumcondra Road Lower, pleaded guilty to two counts of assault causing harm to Liam Tully and Paul Simpson at a Drumcondra Road address on February 1, 2006.