JUST DESSERTS
EIGHT WEEKS FOR TEEN THUG WHO HIT NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CABBIE
A teenager is behind bars because he jumped into a taxi and attacked the driver. Ian McGhee was on a night out in Newcas- tle when he saw a cab queuing in traffic and decided he wanted a lift to the quayside. But the driver refused to take the drunk 19- year-old and told him to get out of the car.
Turning aggressive McGhee, of East Den- ton, shouted at the driver before lashing out and punching him in the face. He was arrested as he left the taxi and was later found to be in posses- sion of cocaine. According to the New- castle upon Tyne Evening Chronicle, McGee pleaded guilty
to assault and pos- session of a Class A drug at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court. Already on a sus- pended sentence for a previous offence, McGhee was ordered to spend eight weeks in prison.
The driver suffered a black eye and bruis- ing to his face, as well as a cut to his nose.
TEN MONTHS FOR ROW WITH BROMLEY CABBIE OVER DUD NOTE
Taxi driver Turan Ozcelik confronted passengers after he was handed a fake £20.
According to the Bromley Times, John Mahoney, 28, of Orp- ington, was jailed for ten months last month after he admitted causing actual bodily harm to Mr Ozcelik. His fellow passenger Michelle Young, 25, of
New Addington, who handed him the wine bottle was given a community order. Prosecuting, Miss Shahnez Ahmed said Mahoney paid the fare with £20 and Mr Ozce- lik gave him £10 change. She said: “The driver realised the note was a fake. He confronted Mahoney, who took the note back
and Mr Ozcelik asked him to give back the £10 change and he offered to forget the fare.” Mahoney became abusive and punched Mr Ozcelik, Young handed a wine bottle to Mahoney who hit him over the head with it. Blood was pouring from his head and a woman passer-by came to his aid.
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SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR PUNCHING HALIFAX CABBIE IN THE FACE
A man punched a Hal- ifax taxi driver when he refused to take him home.
The Halifax Courier reports that Ryan Collins, 19, admitted racially aggravated assault after attacking Nashir Khan of Local Cars in Halifax.
Collins and another man got into Mr
Khan’s taxi and were told the fare to Hud- dersfield was £12, which they were asked to pay in advance. They produced £5 and when Mr Khan asked them to leave the taxi, he was racially abused and Collins punched him in the face. He also tried to kick and punch the car. The Recorder of Brad-
ford, Judge Stephen Gullick, said it was an unpleasant and unjus- tified offence.
He gave Collins a two- month suspended sentence, a community order with a 12-month supervision require- ment and ordered him to pay £150 compensa- tion and £75 prosecution costs.
12 WEEKS FOR DUO’S DRUNK ATTACK ON ALDERSHOT CABBIE
Two men have been jailed for 12 weeks for assaulting a taxi driver in Aldershot.
The Aldershot News reports that Danny Hayes and Philip Jones attacked the taxi driver on December 20 last year after a night out. Jones, 24, of Tongham, and Danny
Hayes, 18, of Ash, both admitted assault by beating.
The court heard they had got into the taxi by the rank at Alder- shot station early in the morning. The driv- er decided to take them back to the sta- tion and when he stopped the two men
climbed out of the vehicle and started punching him.
He struggled to defend himself before being pulled out of the car by his right arm. An ambulance was called following the incident and the victim was taken to Frimley Park Hospital.
15 MONTHS FOR MAN WHO BIT SCARBOROUGH CABBIE’S EAR
A Scarborough man who bit the ear of a taxi driver during a fren- zied assault has been jailed for 15 months. According to the Scar- borough Evening News, Lee Hudson, 20, from Eastfield, admitted assault causing actual bodily harm - just weeks after taking part in an attack on a man as he lay on the ground. Appearing at York Crown Court, Hudson pleaded guilty to two
counts of assault caus- ing actual bodily harm and one of affray. Prosecuting, Stephanie Hancock said the attack on the taxi driver hap- pened as Hudson and his partner were head- ing home from a night out and he and the driv- er initially enjoyed some light-hearted banter before Hudson “flipped”.
The driver needed eight stitches to the tear in his ear and was
also left with bruising and swelling to his face, neck, throat, arms and shoulders. According to a victim statement, he could no longer cope with taxi driving in the Eastfield area.
Recorder Stephen Ashurst sent Hudson to jail for nine months for the assault on the taxi driver and a further six months each for the two other offences, to be served concurrently.
JAIL FOR GANG WHO VICIOUSLY ATTACKED SOUTHEND CABBIE
Christopher White, 24, part of a gang of yobs who beat up and tried to rob cabbie Keith Byrne, has been jailed for 18 months.
During the assault the cabbie also saw one of his attackers trying to stab him through the back of his seat as they demanded cash. At Basildon Crown Court, White pleaded guilty to assault with intent to rob. Accord- ing to the Southend Evening Echo and
Journal, White was with 20-year-old Terrance Reason and Jared Sut- ton, 23, when taxi driver Keith Byrne picked them up in in October last year.
They launched their attack, repeatedly punching and kicking Mr Byrne, and one of the gang threatened to stab him.
The court heard that White didn’t know his pals were planning the attack or that they had a weapon, but admitted
punching Mr Byrne. Reason, 21, of Pitsea, was arrested at the scene of the attack. He denied assault with intent to rob, but jurors found him guilty and he was sentenced to four years in prison last December.
Jared Sutton, 23, was recognised by the cabbie at Reason’s trial. He pleaded guilty to assault with intent to rob and was sen- tenced to two years four months in June.
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