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DUDLEY DRIVER HIGH ON COCAINE IN TERRIFYING KNIFE ATTACK ONWOMAN
A drug-addled taxi driver who attacked a woman with a knife while high on cocaine started an 18-month jail sen- tence last month. The Express and Star reports that Abdul Jabbar knew the woman and had asked her to give him a lift when his vehicle was dropped off for repair. The pair left in con- voy after meeting by agreement in Highfield
Road,
Netherton, but he parked alongside a nearby block of flats and climbed into her car with a bag, Wolverhamp-
ton Crown Court was told. The married 41- year-old admitted he was ‘coked up’ and had been taking drugs all night, revealed Mr Howard Searle, prosecuting. The court heard how the defendant told the woman: “Sorry, I don’t know what
I’m doing”
before producing an eight-inch bladed knife from the bag. The terrified woman tried to get out but was grabbed by the hair by Jabbar on August 26 last year, the court heard. “She was kicking and screaming and
Wolverhampton Crown Court where the case was heard
managed to wriggle away from him to open her door,” con- tinued Mr Searle. She got out and started to phone the
police as he dashed round the car to put a hand over her mouth yelling: ‘Shut up, shut up or I will stab you.’
Her cries for help were heard by a member of the pub- lic whose shouts spooked the attack- er into throwing the victim to
the
ground and fleeing in his taxi. He was arrested soon afterwards. The petrified victim was not physically injured but is now frightened whenev- er she leaves her home and has had to change her car as it reminds her of the attack. Mr Curtis Myrie, defending, said Jab- bar’s marriage was on the rocks and he had developed a
serious cocaine
problem, the court heard. Jabbar from Corpo- ration Road, Dudley, admitted assault and
threatening
with a blade in a way that caused risk of serious harm. He was sent to prison by Judge James Burbidge QC, who said: “You pre-planned to get a woman on her own in a car while ‘coked up’ and in posses- sion of a knife. “You had your own agenda but have not been entirely honest when claim- ing she had nothing to fear from you.”
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