Taxi driver faces trial in 'cleaver' attack case A TAXI driver accused of attacking another man while armed with a meat cleaver is facing trial on the charges.
Bonlanle Banjo (38) is alleged to have seriously assaulted the man and then left the scene in his 2005-registered vehicle.
Banjo, who has been signing on three times a week at Mountjoy Garda Station, asked a judge to remove the order, claiming there had been "attack after attack after attack" by "young, white men" in the area around the station.
He claimed he had been attacked and had been taken to hospital several times. Judge John Lindsay said he did not accept that Mountjoy was a dangerous place, but he agreed to reduce the signing-on condition to once a week.
Banjo, of Cabra Park in Cabra, appeared before Blanchardstown District Court charged with seriously assaulting Peter Brazil and producing a meat cleaver during the course of the assault.
The alleged incident took place at Fonthill Road and Neilstown, in Clondalkin, on August 30 this year.
He is also charged with driving without insurance, dangerous driving and a number of counts of hit-and-run, including failing to stop his vehicle, failing to stay at the scene and failing to give appropriate information.
Detective Garda Padraic Jennings said the DPP has directed trial on indictment in the Circuit Court on the charges.
Passport
Defence solicitor Simon Fleming asked the court to return Banjo's passport to him as the defendant needed it for identification purposes.
Mr Fleming also said the three times a week signing-on condition was onerous on Banjo, who drives all over the country.
The judge reduced the signing-on condition to once a week but refused to return Banjo's passport.
He adjourned the matter to a date in January for the service of the book of evidence.
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