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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Eoin Reynolds

Christina Anderson jailed for eight years for 'ferocious' stabbing of much loved dad trying to start his car

A woman who was undergoing a psychotic episode when she stabbed a stranger to death has been given an eight-year prison sentence by a judge at the Central Criminal Court.

Christina Anderson will also be required to work with probation services and engage with psychiatric treatment for four years after she is released or she will face a further three years in custody.

She has been in the Central Mental Hospital since shortly after the stabbing having been diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder.

READ MORE: 'We didn't lose Gareth, Christina Anderson took him' - family of man stabbed going to work tell of grief

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