Man jailed after slashing women’s arm

A father of four has been jailed for three and half years after he left a woman needing life-saving surgery when he cut an artery in her arm with a blade.

40-year-old John McMahon of Cushlawn Drive in Tallaght in Dublin pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assaulting Christina Joyce outside a methadone clinic in the city centre on December 1, 2012.