A road rage driver threatened another motorist by knocking on his window with a large machete and shouting at him. He then told the victim to get out of his car and fight, leaving him "afraid and shaken".
David Hoskin, 43, brandished the weapon after what he perceived to be a slight from driver Tomos Luxton in Cardiff on October 28, 2021. The defendant got out of his car and approached the victim's vehicle in Sloper Road, Leckwith, before pulling out a machete and using it to tap his window.
A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Thursday heard Hoskin made a number of intimidating threats with the weapon and offered the victim out for a fight, but Mr Luxton didn't leave his vehicle. Sentencing, Judge Matthew Porter-Bryant said: "This was something of a road rage incident with your victim faced with someone tapping on his window with a machete and shouting threats aggressively."
