An attacker who left his victim with a 15cm wound from his ear to his cheek in a “savage” slashing assault has been given a four-year prison sentence.
Jonathan Donovan (37) “savagely attacked” a man on a Dublin street for “reasons known only to himself”, Judge Martin Nolan told his sentence hearing at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Donovan, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to assault causing harm of a man on Gardiner Street in Dublin city centre on February 13, 2022.
