Thursday 5 November 2026Compiled from published reports. Every claim links to its source.

Ireland Crime

Every case followed from the first report to the sentence, or to where the reporting stopped.

Named in reporting

Joanna Benko

Born between January 1989 and January 1990, from the ages reported. 1 report across 1 case, 13 Jan 2022 to 13 Jan 2022

Victim: Joanna Benko, non-Irish woman, 32 (judged from name)Joanna Benko

Key facts

from every report naming them
Named as
Victim
Born
Between January 1989 and January 1990, from the ages reported
Offences
Attempted murder
Where
Co. Dublin
Reporting
1 report, 13 Jan 2022 to 13 Jan 2022
Outlets
thejournal.ie

Cases

latest first
  • Man's 15-year sentence for attempted murder in Dublin upheld on appeal Attempted murder · Co. Dublin

    Andrzej Benko, a 50-year-old man, hit his sleeping wife Joanna Benko, 32, three times with a lump hammer at their home in Mulhuddart, Dublin, on 5 July 2010, her 32nd birthday. He drove to Blanchardstown Garda Station and told gardaí he had intended to kill her. A jury at the Central Criminal Court found him guilty of attempted murder in April 2014, and he was sentenced to 15 years. In January 2022, the Court of Appeal rejected his appeal against the severity of that sentence.

    Sentenced, 13 Jan 2022Victim · 1 report

Timeline

every report naming Joanna Benko, newest first

Each entry shows how that report described them.

  1. 13 Jan2022
    Sentencedthejournal.ie, in Man's 15-year sentence for attempted murder in Dublin upheld on appeal
    Man who tried to bludgeon sleeping wife to death with hammer loses bid to have jail term cut
    victim, Joanna Benko, 32, female, non-irish (judged from name)Joanna Benko

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