Auction for artist - Art aid for a dignified lady

The art auction held yesterday in Blackrock, Dublin, raised over €60,000 for disabled artist Alexandra Trotsenko.

A Russian married to an Irishman, she had several fingers cut off in a savage attack at her Dublin apartment in September 2009.

She was alone in the apartment when James Kenny forced his way in, wearing a balaclava and armed with a knife and machete. Demanding money, jewellery and credit cards, he stabbed Ms Trotsenko in the face, neck, chest and abdomen and cut off fingers on her right hand. Earlier this month Judge Tony Hunt described the attack as one of “almost medieval barbarity”.