Taximan hit with fine and driving disqualification

A taximan has been fined €2000 and disqualified from driving for two years for his attack on a young man who spat at his car and which left the victim in need of a life support machine for six weeks.

Taxi driver Gary Devine, aged 31, of Beverton Green, Donabate, followed the victim, Mark Higgins, with the intention of catching up with him and making him wipe the spit off what the court heard was his "very clean kept" car in the early hours of the morning of June 16, 2001.