Moroccan Court Sentences Man to 8 Years for Knife Attack on Australian Teacher in Fez

The verdict was handed down by the criminal chamber of the Court of Appeal, at the end of the fourth hearing of a trial that lasted 3 months and 20 days since the arrest of the defendant, reports the newspaper Assabah.

Last February, this Australian national was seriously injured in the head following a knife attack, as she was returning home with a friend.

The media specifies that the teacher, in her forties, did not join the civil party in this case, where the charge of attempted murder, initially brought against the repeat offender with a long criminal record, was reduced to premeditated assault and battery.