First pic of painter dad-of-6 stabbed to death in Dublin home by thug demanding cash as ‘violent’ attack details emerge. Irish Sun Paper, so Sad for his Wife and Children.

The man was knifed in the chest and back in a ‘violent and sustained attack’

GARDAI believe a popular painter and decorator was stabbed to death in his own house by a thug who demanded cash from him.

James ‘Jake’ Berney, 53, was knifed in the chest and back in a “violent and sustained attack” by someone he knew inside his home in Balgaddy, west Dublin, at around 11pm on Wednesday.