Latvian sentenced for drunken knife assault

A Latvian man who pulled a knife on a Dublin taxi driver after a whiskey binge-drinking session has received a two year sentence suspended on condition he returns to Latvia.

Oskars Bertulans (aged 31) sat behind Mr Peter Pederman, held a knife to his face and ordered him to drive to Cabra but then got out and ran up the road when the taxi driver kept shouting for help.