Victim of attempted murder seeks to have law changed around 'unique and complex' case

Fionnuala Bourke, who was stabbed nine times in a random attack by a stranger, is angry that her attacker has been deemed to have served her 10-year sentence – even though she has not spent any of it in prison

Laura Kenna (pictured outside court in 2018) for no apparent reason attacked Fionnuala Bourke, stabbing her nine times in the face, neck, back and chest. File picture: Collins Courts

When Fionnuala Bourke left her workplace just days into the new year in 2017, she had no idea that between there and her home an incident would happen that would be life changing.

As Christmas lights still twinkled in homes around Drumcondra, a woman she had never met, Laura Kenna, who was of no fixed abode, was sitting on a wall on Fionnuala's route home. And for no apparent reason, she attacked Fionnuala, known as Fi, stabbing her nine times in the face, neck, back and chest.