Drug addict loses sentence appeal for 'barbarous' stabbing of another woman over €50

Mr Justice John Edwards, presiding at the non-jury court, said that "intimate parts of the victim had been outrageously violated"

In dismissing the appeal, Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy said that the offence of assault causing serious harm carried a maximum penalty of life in jail. File picture

An on-bail drug addict who repeatedly stabbed another woman in a row over a €50 note in a "barbarous" attack that a judge compared to "films depicting the worst of human behaviour", has failed in a bid to overturn her eight-year jail sentence.

The Court of Appeal noted that the attack was aggravated by a sexual element which amounted to a "humiliating attack on intimate body parts".