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COCAINE SNORTING LIVERPOOL DRIVER JAILED FOR RUNNING OVER PENSIONER
A taxi driver who killed a Liverpool pensioner while under the influence of cocaine has been jailed. According to the Liverpool Echo, tests found Paul Morrison still had metabolites linked to the Class A drug in his system when he crashed into Andrew Oakden. The 43-year-old then audaciously claimed the victim had stepped out in front of his car - when he is actually thought to have been within steps of completing his road crossing. Mr Oakden had just left the Gateacre Institute when he was struck on Grange Lane at around 11.30pm on Satrurday February 18, 2017. The 89- year-old died as a result of his injuries
heard a bang. I didn’t see him what- soever.”
Dash cam footage and investigations at the scene of the crash later proved his claims wrong. Tests later found Morrison was three times over the legal limit for the main metabolite of co- caine, Benzoylec- gonine. The court heard he had taken around
half a gram of cocaine in the early hours of that Satur- day morning and that, while the cocaine had left his system, he was still under the influence of the metabolite. Having initially de- nied causing death by careless driving while above the limit for controlled drugs, Morrison then changed his plea last month.
Listening from the dock he sat in silence as he heard the case against him set out. David Birrell, de- fending, said Mor- rison was genuinely remorseful for his actions. Judge Conrad jailed Morrison for four years and four months and he was also disqualified from driving for 62 months.
Paul Morrison
the following day. Liverpool Crown Court heard evience suggested Morrison had been driving at up to 37mph in the 30mph zone just before the crash. A crash scene inves- tigator described conditions as “cold,
clear and dry, with good visibility”. In the aftermath of the collision Morri- son claimed he had only been driving at 25mph and said: “He just walked out in front of me” and “I tried to
stop to avoid him and I just
BIRMINGHAM PRIVATE HIRE DRIVER ‘LICKED PASSENGER’S FACE’
A driver accused of licking a female pas- senger’s face had his licence revoked, a council report re- vealed. According to BBC News, a sexual as- sault report has been made to West Midlands Police. Licensing officials visited the driver’s home address to inform him his licence had been revoked on 19 April. The case went be- fore
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Council’s licensing and public protec- tion committee on Wednesday 13 June. It said: “On 19 April 2018 the Licensing Enforcement Sec- tion received inform- ation from the West Midlands Police: on or about the same date a female pas- senger was as- saulted in a sexual manner by the driv- er of a private hire vehicle. The driver grabbed her by her scarf and attempted
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to ‘stick his tongue down her throat’. “She was able to free herself and leave the vehicle. She approached the driver’s window to pay him but he again grabbed her by the scarf and tried to kiss her, but ended up licking her face and nose.” Emma Rohomon, the council’s acting head of licensing, said the driver had appealed against the action to magistrates.
NEW DNA MATCH SEES TELFORD DRIVER JAILED FOR 1989 RAPE
A cab driver who raped a teenager in Shropshire almost 30 years ago after she asked him for help has been jailed for ten years. According to the Shropshire Star, Irvine Watt, aged 64, was found guilty of the rape which took place in May 1989,
when he
attacked a woman in his taxi. He had earlier been charged with rape in September 1989, but was acquitted due to a lack of forensic evidence. However, new tech- nology was brought into play in 2014 and fresh evidence was brought against Watt. Stafford Crown Court heard that Watt, from Telford, raped a 17-year-old girl who had missed her train stop. He was found guilty and sentenced last month.
The court heard the victim was travelling from Shrewsbury to Wellington, but miss- ed her stop and got off at Telford. With no ticket or money, she approached Watt, who was 35 at the time and work- ing as a black cab driver, and explain- ed the situation. He offered to drive her to Wellington but instead took her to a field and raped her. Watt then drove the girl back to Telford railway sta- tion and gave her £1.70 for a ticket back to Shrewsbury. She told her family and then the police. Watt was originally acquitted in Sep- tember of that year due to lack of foren- sic evidence, but a review of the evi- dence in 2014 found a DNA match and the matter came before the Court of Appeal under the rarely-used ‘double
jeopardy’ legisla- tion. Robin Allen, District Crown Prosecutor with the West Mid- lands CPS Rape and Serious Sexual Of- fences Unit, said: “I would like to firstly thank the victim for her courage and support in this case which has assisted us in bringing this dangerous sexual predator to justice. “For nearly 30 years Irvine Watt had thought that he had escaped justice, however,
through
new forensic tech- niques, we were able to match the defendant’s DNA to the 1989 rape. “The prosecution team were able to use this key piece of evidence to reopen the case, make an application to quash the previous acquit- tal and order a retrial resulting in today’s successful conviction.”
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