A man has been accused of the attempted murder of his former partner during a knife attack at her home in Dublin three months ago.
The accused, in his mid-30s, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared before Judge Alan Mitchell at Cloverhill District Court on Tuesday.
The man, a foreign national who had an address in north Dublin, had been remanded in custody in May.
At that stage, he had been charged with causing serious harm to the woman, as well as production of a kitchen knife capable of inflicting serious injury, during an assault at her west Dublin home on a date in May.
He was also charged with breaching a protection order on the same day by “watching” the woman’s residence and false imprisonment of her young child during the incident.
On Tuesday, however, following directions from the Director of Public Prosecutions, the accused was further charged with attempted murder of the woman.
Garda Jennifer Greene told Judge Mitchell that the DPP directed that he face trial…
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