Taxi driver in knife threat

A Dublin man who robbed a 62-year-old taxi driver after holding what the victim thought was a blade to his throat has been jailed for three years.

Garda Pamela Dunne said that Christopher Maughan, 22, pulled the taxi driver’s head back and threatened to cut his throat after being dropped to his destination at a Ballymun halting site.

Maughan’s friend got out of the passenger seat and walked around the car to take the keys from the ignition. The driver was then ordered to walk towards fields across from the halting site, while the two young men sped off in his car.