A man whose savage drugs and alcohol-fuelled attack has left a taxi driver living on disability allowance has been given nine years in consecutive sentences for the assualt and for thefts from psychiatric inpatients.

Sentencing of a man whose savage drugs- and alcohol-fuelled attack has left a taxi driver living on disability allowance has been adjourned again while the judge considers psychiatric reports.

A taxi driver hasn’t worked since being left with serious head injuries after he was attacked outside a church by a man who had consumed cannabis and alcohol and wasn’t happy about the price of his fare.