Knife travelled across victim's brain to other side of skull

Thomas Power has been jailed for seven and a half years for stabbing a stranger in Limerick.

A 29-year-old man who stabbed a stranger in the head and "destroyed his life" by leaving him with a "horrific" brain injury and a lifelong disability, has been jailed for seven and a half years.

The Central Criminal Court heard that the knife penetrated up to the hilt and travelled across the victim's brain to the other side of his skull, leaving the tip of the weapon inside.