Psychiatric patient jailed for stabbing busker

A psychiatric patient who stabbed a Temple Bar busker because voices told him the man was going to kill someone has been given a four-year sentence by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Stuart Murphy (aged 31), who is being held in the Central Mental Hospital, claimed he spoke with the victim before stabbing him but witnesses said this was unrtue and "the voices" were a figment of his imagination.