A Prince George man will have to serve 18 months in jail after the B.C. Court of Appeal rejected his attempt to overturn a conviction of assault with a weapon in relation to an incident nearly six years ago in which he drove his truck onto the sidewalk outside a local nightspot and struck a woman.
Key to his appeal, Michael Neil Dawydiuk asserted he had no choice because he was blocked in by a taxi idling on the side-street next to his truck and by his attackers following a dispute at the Cadillac Ranch at about 2 a.m. on April 14, 2004.
