A former Kosovan Liberation Army soldier who was involved in two stabbings on the same night has been remanded in custody for sentence next January by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Hasan Abazi stabbed a man waiting for a taxi and attacked his wife with a scissors when he returned home. The court heard that Abazi was tortured and shot by Serbian forces in Belgrade and fled to Ireland by hiding in a lorry.
Abazi pleaded guilty to two counts of assault at Summerhill on October 5th last year. His wife, Sabrina, said he bit her all over her body and knocked her against a wall before stabbing her in the face.
Sgt Mary Diskin told Ms Pauline Walley, prosecuting, that earlier that night Mr Derek Shaw was waiting to get a taxi with his girlfriend when Abazi shouted at them from across his window. He followed them and shouted, "Hey you", before stabbing Mr Shaw in the lower abdomen.
Sgt Diskin said Mr Shaw worked in construction for Dublin Corporation and has since found it difficult to use heavy equipment such as an industrial hammer drill. She added that when Abazi was asked by gardai if he had stabbed Mr Shaw, he replied: "Might have stabbed one or two, none of your business, f . . k off."
The defence said Abazi had a harrowing background and had "effectively snapped" that night. He had taken anti-epilepsy drugs which he mixed with a cocktail of alcohol. Abazi had also been severely assaulted in Dublin in April 1998 and had a metal plate inserted in his head.