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RACIST LIVERPOOL THUG JAILED FOR 18 MONTHS FOR BATTERING CABBIE WITH VODKA BOTTLE


A racist thug battered, taxi driver Nnade Uduji, with a vodka bottle but accidentally left his mobile in the victim’s car in February last year in Stockbridge Village. George Liu unleashed a torrent of vile abuse after drunkenly reacting with fury to being told to pay his fare


in advance. He then


repeatedly struck the cabbie to the head and face with the makeshift weapon during the early hours assault. Liverpool Crown Court heard on


Tuesday 25 July, that when Liu, from Wavertree, was asked to get out of the cab he said: “You must drive black man”. Liu swung the vodka bottle at the driver - hitting him to the head and face several times. Mr Uduji suffered a “nasty” wound to the top of his head, which had to be glued in hospital, as well as a cut to


the bridge of his nose and “small lumps” on his forehead. In a recording of Mr Uduji’s 25- minute call for help, his assailant was heard saying “he was going to kill him”, calling him a “little black b******” and an “African c***” and making other racist comments. Liu has seven previous convictions for 11 offences, including one for racially-aggravated assault in 2009.


He admitted racially-aggravated ABH and was jailed for 18 months.


30 MONTHS’ JAIL FOR WOMAN WHO HELD EIGHT INCH KNIFE TO THROAT OF DERBY CABBIE


A woman held a knife to a cabbie’s throat and demanded his cash during a terrifying early morning robbery attempt. Derby Crown Court heard how Keavey Toal, 23, was also involved in a number of other crimes: she assaulted police officers and damaged property. The robbery took place at around 1.45am on April 11, 2022. The driver picked up the defendant and asked for the fare upfront. The prosecutor said: “She said she would get it from her mum when he dropped her off at home. “He agreed and asked for her mobile phone (as insurance). “They arrived at her home and she went to get the money. When she came back she demanded he hand her the phone back. She got back in the passenger seat, leaned towards him and he felt something pressed against his neck. “She said if he did not return her


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phone then she would stab him and she reached over and got it. She then de- manded he hand over money still while holding the knife to his throat. He said he did not have any money, she got out and the police were called.” The prosecutor outlined other offences committed by


the


defendant separate to the attempted robbery. The defendant pleaded guilty to attempted robbery, threatening a person with a bladed article, three counts of assault of an emergency worker and three counts of criminal damage. Her criminal record of 16 convictions for 44 offences includes a previous robbery and attempted robbery from when she was aged 16, a knife offence and


assault occasioning ABH. Chris Hallas, mitigating, said his client has been remanded in custody on all of the matters since early January of this year and has “a history of severe trauma since childhood”. Jailing Toal for two and a half years, Judge Robert Egbuna said: “When you are high, or using alcohol or as a consequence of your mental health, you are a danger. “The taxi driver was petrified, it’s not just physical injury there are also psychological injuries like the sort you have suffered. “Taking a knife out was a conscious decision, it was a knife that was pretty frightening, it was not like a penknife, it was an eight-inch knife. “You wanted to get your phone back and you also thought you would try and get some money. That was a conscious decision, he was a taxi driver and taxi drivers deserve to be protected.”


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