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HALIFAX CABBIE SAYS: ‘THEY BROUGHT ME BACK FROM THE DEAD’...
A taxi driver who ‘died’ before being brought back to life has expressed his thanks to the paramedic who helped him escape death following an ex- tremely rare cardiac arrest. Rashad Mahmood’s heart stopped just minutes after he alert- ed the emergency services that he had chest pains. Luckily
paramedic
James Kirkham was quick at the scene arriving to Rashad’s Newstead
Grove
home just moments before he collapsed and went into cardiac arrest. Following the ordeal Rashad, 32, described how he “was drifting into death”. “They brought me back from the dead,”
Rashad said. Paramedic James ex- plained what hap- pened. He told the Hal- ifax Courier: “It’s very, very rare. He called us with chest pains. I work alone on a response vehicle, and got to him within a couple of minutes and tried to calm him down. “Then he just leapt out the chair and col- lapsed to the floor. He was in cardiac arrest which at 32 is incredi- bly unusual. I was able to get the pads on, shock him and we got his pulse and his breathing back.” Rashad was then taken to Calderdale Royal A&E before being transferred to Leeds General Infir- mary where medical staff treated the cause of
attack - a blocked artery - before return- ing back to Calderdale and miraculously being discharged from hospital within a mat- ter of days. Rashad said: “It’s a new life for me; I’m thankful to everybody who was involved.” The
Rashad
paramedic believes
saved him from death revealed he was ‘just doing his job.’ Based at Halifax Ambulance Station, James Kirkham, 42, said: “He’s had a very, very,
very lucky the initial heart
escape which just shows what we can do. We are trained to do it; we haven’t done anything out of the ordinary and it just shows how effective it can be if we get there quickly enough.”
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NOTTINGHAM DRIVER FALSELY ACCUSED OF RAPE SAVED BY HIS PHONE APP
A taxi driver has told how a sexual assault claim made up by a passenger tore his world apart. Mohammed Asif was arrested and left cry- ing in a police cell after Astria Berwick told officers he had committed a serious sexual assault and attacked her with a knife in his cab. A voice recording he made of the journey is the only thing that saved him from going on trial. According to the Not- tingham Post,
the
CCTV in Mr Asif’s cab wasn’t working on the day Berwick said he attacked her, but he was using a sound recording ‘app’ on his mobile phone as a back-up. Police listened to the tape and realised there had been no assault during the February 20 cab jour- ney. Mr Asif, 34, of Carlton Hill,
Berwick was jailed. He
spoke said:
after “She
changed my life. I’m completely different now. I’m scared to go out. “I keep thinking, ‘I just dropped her off, she
Astria Berwick, left, told officers that Mohammed Asif had carried out an assault on her in his cab
was just a normal pas- senger, why has she done that?’” Berwick, 27,
from
Bingham, appeared at Nottingham Crown Court in June and was jailed for 16 months after she admitted per- verting the course of justice. Judge Michael Stokes QC, The Recorder of Nottingham,
Berwick called police for “some unaccount- able reason” and made up the story. He said: “This was outrageous behaviour by the defendant against a wholly inno- cent man who had been saved by the recording on his phone.”
said
Mr Asif said he felt “really lucky” he’d thought to use the phone ‘app’ on the day and believes that without it he’d now be on remand waiting to face a judge and jury. After the arrest he could not face working again for a month and lost a stone in weight. Now back at work, he is still trying to forget the night everything came crashing down for him. The father of two said he was shaking after being released by police and still had problems sleeping. He added: “If I ever met
her again,
although I don’t want to, I’d just ask ‘why?’ ”
EAST LOTHIAN RANK IN WAY OF THOSE WITH DISTANT DESTINATIONS
Transport is always available outside Wil- liam Lawrie’s under- takers in Haddington, East Lothian, but the wrong sort. According to the Times, a new taxi rank means he must wheel coffins 150 metres up the street to the near- est place he can park his hearses. A spokesperson from East Lothian Council said: “A consultation into parking” in the town was being car- ried out.
Photo courtesy of Deadline News PHTM AUGUST 2013
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