The life of a little girl who was stabbed in Dublin by Riad Bouchaker, and the lives of her family, have become ‘unrecognisable’, the Central Criminal Court heard on Monday.
The girl, who was five when Bouchaker stabbed her on Parnell Square, has a lifelong, life-limiting severe disability after her brain was deprived of oxygen for 40 minutes following the attack, the court heard.
At Bouchaker’s sentencing hearing on Monday, the court heard how the now eight-year-old is non-verbal and can only communicate by blinking, uses a wheelchair and has to be fed through a tube in her stomach as she cannot
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