Young man jailed for stabbing teenager in the head with bottle on Cork City centre street

The accused said he was homeless at that time and living in a container in Blackrock in Cork

An experienced detective said he had never encountered anything like the violence of two teenagers stabbing each other with a knife and a broken bottle as shoppers were going about their day on Oliver Plunkett Street in Cork. File picture: Dan Linehan

The stabbing of a teenager in the head with a broken bottle is not what people should encounter when they are on the streets on Cork City, a judge said as she imposed an overall sentence of two years on the culprit for his part in this violence and for drug-dealing in Mallow.

Judge Helen Boyle said on Friday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court: “This was a serious offence and involved the use of a bottle. You caused injuries to the scalp of the victim… It is not what people should encounter on the streets of Cork City.