A violent drug dealer with 24 previous convictions who slashed open a man’s throat with a stanley blade has been given 2 and a half years in prison by Sligo Circuit Court.
22-year-old Sait Murrin, who has previous convictions for drug dealing, was convicted of assaulting two men, including one whose throat he cut with a stanley blade, after he pled guilty to the charges.
As reported by the Sunday World, after stabbing the victim above the Adam’s apple, Murrin said “Ha, got ya.” The victim miraculously survived, though Gardaí reported seeing the victim’s windpipe exposed after arriving on the scene.
Before this attack, Murrin chased a barber through the streets of Sligo before assaulting him in a car park and allegedly threatening to kill his family.
At the time of these events, Murrin was free after being given a suspended sentence in Tipperary for yet a third previous violent assault, where he attacked a man with a beer bottle in a pub. He was also arrested for swinging a hurley at Gardaí in Tipperary later the same year.
He was given a six month suspended sentence for those offences, and it was during this period that he committed the more recent assaults.
Judge Francis Comerford handed Murrin three years and one month, with six months suspended due to the accused’s “harsh upbringing.”
Reportedly, a probation report on Murrin deemed him “at very high risk of re-offending.”