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Crippling cab war.


Byline: STUART CAMERON

A CABBIE cab·by or cab·bie  
n. pl. cab·bies
A cabdriver.



[cab1 + -y3.
 who battered a rival driver with a steel wheelbrace was jailed for three years yesterday.

James McTiernan, 56, hit his victim in the head with the hefty tool, before shattering his ankles as he lay on the ground.

The thug, from Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, had flown into a rage because John Clark John Clark is the name of:
  • John Clark (actor/director) (born 1932), ex-husband of Lynn Redgrave
  • John Clark (governor) (1761-1821), American farmer and governor of Delaware
  • John Clark (Georgia governor) (1766-1832), American politician and governor of Georgia
 was planning to set up a supermarket link on what he saw as his patch.

As McTiernan swung the wheelbrace, he said: "That'll f****** teach you."

The brutal attack at the town's Jay Cars taxi office left Mr Clark partially deaf and crippled.

Yesterday, McTiernan was sentenced at the High Court in Dunfermline, after admitting assaulting Mr Clark, 37, to his severe injury and permanent impairment Impairment

1. A reduction in a company's stated capital.

2. The total capital that is less than the par value of the company's capital stock.

Notes:
1. This is usually reduced because of poorly estimated losses or gains.

2.
 last December.

Lord Carloway said: "I don't consider any sentence other than a custodial one is appropriate."
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Dec 20, 2003
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