Judge tells jury of alternative verdicts available in Dublin stabbing trial
Alternative verdicts are available in the three attempted murder charges facing a man on trial in relation to a stabbing in Dublin three years ago, the judge has told jurors.
Riad Bouchaker, 52, of no fixed address, is charged with the attempted murder of two girls, aged five and six, and one five-year-old boy, on Parnell Square East in Dublin city centre on November 23rd 2023.
Bouchaker is also charged with intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to care worker Leanne Flynn, with assaulting two young children and a teenager and with producing a 36cm kitchen knife.
He has pleaded not guilty to all eight charges.
Bouchaker is charged with the attempted murder of a then-five-year-old girl who the court previously heard is now non-verbal and needs to use a wheelchair.
Mr Justice Tony Hunt told the jury that in this case, along with verdicts of guilty or not guilty, they could return a verdict of “intentionally or recklessly caused serious harm”.
He said that verdicts of...
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