Sentence increased for man at centre of unprovoked knife attack

The Court of Criminal Appeal has increased the prison sentence from one to five years imposed on a Dublin man for stabbing another man in what the court heard was an unprovoked attack.

Last December at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court Gavin Guinan-Cahill (aged 30), Lissadel Road, Driminagh pleaded guilty of assaulting Darren Ward contrary to section four of the Non Fatal Offences Against the Person Act at DriminAgh on September 25, 2005.