Judge tells pair they were ‘a millimetre away from doing a life sentence’
Mr Justice Tony Hunt called the case 'very disturbing' and described the very 'calculated degree of violence' on the then 16-year-old victim as shocking. Photograph: Tom HonanTwo “feral youths” who stabbed a teenager 14 times in a vicious and premeditated attack have received combined jail sentences of 13-and-a-half years.
Mr Justice Hunt said that both defendants “fitted the bill” for the term “feral youth”, which he said was occasionally used by the media. He said he found the case disturbing because it was perpetrated by “people so young”.
Johnston of Russell Place, Russell Square, Tallaght, Dublin 24 had pleaded guilty to assault causing serious harm to the then 16-year-old victim at Tymon Lane in Tallaght on January 2nd, 2021. He had also pleaded guilty to six threats to kill another teenager, unrelated to the victim of the stabbing, via text message and once verbally at the Red Cow Luas stop in Dublin 22 on April 14th, 2021.
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