A Barry man has avoided jail after launching a drunken attack on a taxi driver who refused him entry to his vehicle as he already had a customer.
Joseph Gurd, 25, rained blows down on the cabbie in Broad Street last March after being turned away.
The assault was so violent the driver suffered a cut lip.
Shocking footage filmed on the passenger's mobile phone captured the moment Gurd then turned his aggression on a bystander who intervened.
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At the sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court, on July 29, 2024, Judge Recorder Owen Casey told Gurd: “Instead of walking away you decided to reach into the taxi and punch the taxi driver.
"He was in a vulnerable position at the time as he was sitting down."
Judge Casey described the attack as "completely fuelled by alcohol" and sengtenced the 25-year-old to 14 months suspended for 18 months for two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and one count of battery.
He was also ordered to complete 180 hours of unpaid work in the community and fined £500.
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