Ruth Maxwell has also revealed her delight and relief at the lengthy sentence handed down by Judge Codd in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court last Thursday. I was thrilled,” said Ruth who had just undergone surgery on her hand which was badly injured in the attack. I was so happy and so grateful to Judge Pauline Codd for doing that,” she told Sean O’Rourke on RTÉ Radio. He had a cloth in the left hand and a knife in the right hand. Ruth severed the tendons on three of her fingers on her dominant left hand.

Source: Irish Examiner May 22, 2018 00:22 UTC