23-year-old pleads guilty to drunken attack
A Merseyside man will be sentenced in the Court of General Gaol Delivery after breaking a bone in a taxi driver’s face during a drunken attack.
Twenty-three-year-old Stephen Joseph Rooney of Red Rock Street in Liverpool appeared before magistrates at Douglas courthouse.
He pleaded guilty to a single count of assault causing grievous bodily harm on 18 December.
Prosecution advocate Roger Kane told the hearing Rooney was one of four people who got in a cab on Victoria Street in Douglas at 3.45am that morning.
The court heard the taxi driver pulled over on Harris Promenade after Rooney told him he didn’t have a destination to go to.
Rooney got out and opened the boot – and when the driver got out to close it Rooney launched a vicious attack which left his victim needing hospital treatment.
Rooney later handed himself into police, but during interview he answered “no comment” to all questions.
Magistrates bailed him in the sum of £500 and committed to the Court of General Gaol Delivery for sentencing.
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