A photo of a crack-addict thief holding a seven-inch hunting knife against the throat of a taxi driver was the "most frightening thing I have ever seen" in his 31-year career, a provincial court judge commented in sentencing Donald George Witso to four years in jail late last month.
To Judge Darrell O'Byrne, the image, taken by a camera installed in the cab, was of a man "who is absolutely out of control" as Witso robbed two taxi drivers over the span of about six hours on Oct. 10, 2011 to feed a crack cocaine habit that left him without any money.
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