A bus driver was robbed at knifepoint by a drug-crazed thug who tried to stab him in front of shocked passengers.
He was driving in Choppington, in Northumberland, in May this year when he was flagged down by Gavin Mullen, who asked about a bus to Cramlington. But his true intentions were to rob the driver.
When he got onto the bus the driver noticed he was armed with a Stanley knife so he pulled down a perspex screen to try to protect himself. Jessica Slaughter, prosecuting, told Newcastle Crown Court : "The screen has a gap at the bottom, a six inch gap which the defendant tried to stab him by poking the knife underneath and demanded money from him."
