Robber threatened taxi drivers with 'aids needle'

A man who brandished a knife to try and rob a woman at her home and later threatened two taxi drivers with what he claimed was "a needle full of AIDS" has been given five years in suspended sentences.

Conor Casey, aged 24, of Seaview, Laytown, Co Meath was heavily under the influence of drugs and alcohol on March 11, 2006 when he knocked on the door of a Blanchardstown house, brandished "a large knife" and demanded all her cash from the woman who answered .