A taxi passenger held a knife to a driver's neck and threatened to kill him if he refused to hand over cash.
The cabbie was left with a small cut to his throat during a terrifying ordeal as he pleaded for Marc Brunton to stop and leave him alone. Brunton got away with a coin bag but has left the cabbie with flashbacks, anxiety and always feeling "on high alert and unsafe".
Now Brunton has been branded a danger to the public as he was jailed at Newcastle Crown Court. The victim picked up Brunton from Hebburn Metro station, in South Tyneside and took him to Stanhope Road in South Shields last December.
