A war veteran lost his job with a leading offender-support charity after slashing a man with a carving knife, a court heard.
Shaun O'Donohue, 41, left 63-year-old Edward Cummings permanently scarred after the incident in Bo'ness, West Lothian. The court heard Mr Cummings had called a cab to take him to a local pub. When the taxi turned up, the driver noticed O'Donohue seemed to be following Mr Cummings as he left a nearby property, and had something metal in his hand.
When Mr Cummings got in, the taximan immediately locked the doors, but O'Donohue began rapping on the window and Mr Cummings asked the driver to unlock the doors again and got out and stood on the pavement facing O'Donohue. Falkirk Sheriff Court was told that O'Donohue was carrying "a kitchen carving knife with a six-inch blade".
