Man held fake gun to taxi driver’s head for 2 hours

A LIMERICK taximan thought he faced certain death as he was forced at gunpoint to drive for two hours around the city late at night.

Man held fake gun to taxi driver’s head for 2 hours

Convicted criminal, Mark Ryan, aged 25, of Lenihan Avenue, Prospect, tried to get the driver to get money from an ATM at one point, but the transaction could not be completed.

In another attack months earlier, Ryan slashed a 60-year-old man across the face with a knife and was found a short time later wearing a sweatshirt soaked in his victim’s blood.

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