TERROR TIMES CABBIE ATTACKED WITH A HAMMER AT BRADFORD PETROL STATION IN FRONT OF BYSTANDERS
A cabbie was hit on the head with a hammer when he was attacked at a Bradford petrol station in broad day- light in front of horrified bystanders. The Telegraph and Argus reports that Naomi Warwick and Reiss Callendar set about the cabbie when their two chil- dren were in his vehicle and motorists were buying fuel, Bradford Crown Court heard. Warwick struck the back of the taxi with a hammer before using it to smash the windscreen and then hitting the driver on the head with it. Callendar ran up and threw “a flying punch” at him before stealing his money bag containing up to £120. Warwick, 29, from Croydon, and Cal- lendar, 30, from London, pleaded guilty
to causing the taxi driver grievous bod- ily harm on July 23, 2019. Warwick admitted possession of the small hammer as an offensive weapon and doing £100 damage to the taxi. Callendar pleaded guilty to theft of the victim’s money. The court heard that they were living together at an address in Bradford at the time before relocating to London. They were in the taxi with their two children when they asked the driver to stop at the petrol station. Callendar then got out and Warwick started swearing loudly at the driver when he said he should hurry up. The victim gave back a £5 note that Callendar had handed him and said they should get another taxi. Warwick
then attacked the vehicle and the driv- er with the hammer. The cabbie was treated in hospital for a 3cm cut to his head. He had to take time off work and he suffered with headaches and loss of confidence when doing his job. Warwick had previous convictions for assault occasioning actual bodily harm and battery. Callendar had convictions for battery, non-payment of a fare and threatening behaviour. Recorder Alistair MacDonald QC adjourned the case until April 6 to view a psychiatric report being prepared on Warwick. He gave both defendants bail and told them all sentencing options remained open.
TAXI DRIVER SUFFERS RACIST ABUSE WHILE AT RANK AT TUNBRIDGE WELLS TRAIN STATION
Police are investigating after a taxi driver in Tunbridge Wells was racially abused while at the town’s main train station.
Medhat Khechine says that he was working on Tuesday 15 March, when a Range Rover pulled into the bays
restricted for taxi use only. “I told him he wasn’t supposed to park there and that he would get a ticket as it was only for taxis but he then started to racially abuse me,” he told the Times of Tunbridge Wells. Mr Khechine recorded the two-minute
TAXI DRIVER THREATENED WITH KNIFE DURING TERRIFYING ROBBERY IN NUNEATON
A taxi driver was threatened with a knife during a terrifying robbery in Nuneaton. According to the Coventry Telegraph, Warwickshire Police said that the taxi driver was parked in a rank in Bridge Street at 8pm on Thursday 17 March, when he was approached by a man. He asked the driver if he could take him somewhere before threatening him with what is believed to be a bladed weapon.
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During this, he took a money bag con- taining a quantity of cash and some electronic equipment from the seat of the taxi. A Warwickshire Police spokesman said that the suspect then got out of the car and made off in the direction of Hartshill along the canal tow path. Fortunately the driver escaped his ordeal unharmed but he was left ‘shaken’ as a result of it.
rant by the driver on his phone, which he has forwarded to the Times. “It was shocking. After he left people came up to me and told me I should report it to the police, so I have,” he said, adding: “To be honest, it is not the first time. It is sad to say but we taxi drivers get a lot of racist abuse at the rank, even here in Tunbridge Wells.” A spokesperson for Kent Police said: “We were called at around 9.30am on Tuesday to a report that a man was being racially abusive to a taxi driver at Tunbridge Wells railway station. “The suspect and victim had both left the scene prior to officers’ attendance. Enquiries into the incident are ongoing.”
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