‘Raging’ knifeman injured two after week-long binge
POSING with a meat cleaver and swords, this is the knifeobsessed man who went on to stab two other men.
Dane Molloy bragged on Facebook of being a “secret ninja” and posed for photographs brandishing the weapons, including a meat cleaver with the words “Thug Life” written on it.
Molloy went on a week-long drink and drugs binge before stabbing two men in a house, one in the abdomen and one in the leg.
He was jailed yesterday for 12 years when Judge Rhys Rowlands told Molloy that he could have easily killed one of his victims.
Molloy, 32, who has previous convictions for 76 offences including violence and public order, had been on a suspended sentence at the time for another violent crime, and was said be in a rage because he wasn’t able to get access to his children.
He drank and took drugs almost solidly for a week and then ended up at a house where he left the men lucky to be alive.
A court heard Molloy turned up at the house on June 29 “raging and crying”.
People were said to have been put on edge by his behaviour, and one victim at first thought he had been punched when Molloy lashed out at him.
He had actually been stabbed in the leg, and saw blood gushing from the wound.
A short time later, the other victim was stabbed in the chest for no reason and had to be put in an induced coma after suffering internal bleeding.
The knife had been plunged three inches into him, cutting his stomach wall and liver.
On his Facebook page, Molloy posed for pictures carrying large combat knives, a samurai sword and a meat cleaver, the Daily Post reports.
At Mold Crown Court, Molloy was told by the judge that he had a “worrying preoccupation with such weapons”.
Judge Rowlands said Molloy, of Middle Lane in Denbigh, could have killed the man he stabbed in the chest at the house in Butterton Road, Rhyl.
Molloy’s lawyer, Simon Killeen, said the 32-year-old suffered from acute attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and took medication for it, but he hadn’t taken the medication during his week-long binge.
Molloy admitted charges of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and assault causing actual bodily harm.
Judge Rowlands said: “I find you do pose a significant risk of causing serious harm to others.”
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