Tarb Abu Issa stabbed officer Shlomi Asulin in the neck with screwdriver in 2007; Asulin still in coma.
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Tarb Abu Issa, 24, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday morning at the Tel Aviv District Court for the brutal assault on Rehovot policeman Sgt.-Maj. Shlomi Asulin in January 2007, in which Abu Issa stabbed the policeman in the neck with a screwdriver.
Asulin's brother, David, who attended the sentencing on Thursday said: "This man can walk away after 20 years but we won't be able to move on. He paralyzed our family. This is not a life."
Asulin, 27, a resident of Kiryat Malachi and father of two preschool-age daughters, was on duty Sunday January 7, 2007 when police received a report that two suspicious males appeared to be breaking into a vehicle in the city's industrial zone. Asulin and his partner were the first to arrive on the scene, and began to pursue the suspects into a nearby orchard.
According to police accounts, a struggle then broke out between the two suspects and the two police officers. During the struggle, Tarb Abu Issa, pulled out a screwdriver and stabbed the policeman in the head. Abu Issa then fled the scene and was arrested several hours after the attack.
Shlomi Asulin remains in a coma to this day.
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