Man put behind bars after threatening taxi drivers with a syringe

A Halesowen man who terrorised taxi drivers in the area by threatening them with a used needle has been put behind bars for seven years thanks to a police investigation.David Purcell, aged 31, was sentenced  for two counts of robbery at Wolverhampton Crown Court on 1 March, after he threatened the drivers in summer last year.Purcell, from Hamilton Avenue, got into the first taxi on Cloister Drive on 6 June where he held what he claimed was a used syringe infected with the Aids virus to the