'Daddy is...cutting Mammy' - Judge jails man for attacking wife with knife in front of small children

A Dublin father who attacked his wife with a knife before turning on his 15-year-old step daughter as she tried to save her mother has been jailed for 18 months.

The court heard the assault on his wife took place in front of small children who ran to get their older sister telling her: “Daddy is downstairs with a knife cutting Mammy.”