Man who mutilated artist is jailed for 16 years

A burglar who chopped off the fingers of an artist in her Dublin flat has been jailed for 16 years by a judge who called the violent attack a "type of medieval barbarity".

James Kenny (aged 35) of Eden Block, Prospect Hill, pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary with a knife and machete at the complex and to causing serious harm to the woman on September 2, 2009.