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PLYMOUTH LOUT AVOIDS JAIL FOR MUGGING ROBBING TAXI DRIVER
A prolific offender has avoided jail for robbing a taxi driver. According to PlymouthLive, Jack PesterJohns, 20, grabbed cash and a phone from the cabbie and threatened to pull a “Rambo” knife on him – though no weapon was produced. He also tried to steal cash from a second taxi driver that same night as police waited to arrest him at his home. Notorious Pester-Johns has been caus-
ing trouble for years, often on the back of a motorbike. At P l y m o u t h Crown Court the defendant admitted rob- bing of the driver of cash and a mobile
phone and the attempted theft from another driver on June 16 this year. Judge Townsend handed Pester-Johns a two-year community order with 200 hours’ unpaid work and drug treatment and testing. He must also wear a GPS tag for four months and complete probation’s Rehabilitation Activity Requirement supervision programme and thinking skills course.
KNIFE-WIELDING DRUNK SPAT AT TAXI DRIVER IN ATTACK OVER FARE ROW IN STOKE-ON-TRENT
Drunken Hayden McGilligan spat at a taxi driver before repeatedly punching him in a row over a fare. Now Mc- Gilligan, 27, has been jailed for two years at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court. Prosecutor Peter McCartney said: “The defendant took a cab from Newcastle to Hartshill on August 15. The driver took £10 from him., but on the way the defendant demanded £6 in change and shouted aggressively, ‘I will smack you’. “When they reached the destination the defendant lunged forward and began punching the driver to the head several times and spitting in his hair,
before getting out of ther cab. “The driver drove a short distance away before calling the police. He saw the defendant enter a house before emerg- ing with two kitchen knives. “McGilligan went back inside his house and emerged with a large knife, consid- erably bigger than the first two. “Another taxi driver stopped his cab and the defendant ran towards him waving the knife aggressively.” Police arrived and saw the defendant run in the property. The officer kicked the door and the defendant came out and was initially compliant but then began
HIGHLAND TAXI DRIVER TO PAY COMPENSATION AFTER BUTTING SOLDIER
A taxi driver who head-butted a soldier has been ordered to pay £900 compensation to his victim. The Ross-shire Journal reports that Michael Munro 28, from Inverness, admitted carrying out the assault in April 2019, when he recently appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court. Munro head-butted his victim with such force he fell to the ground and one of his teeth fell out. Mr Macdonald said the
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tooth was recovered and successfully put back into place. Rory Gowans, defending, said Munro, a self-employed taxi driver, had previously served in the armed forces and there had been an encounter between Munro’s friends and a group of soldiers. Sheriff Eilidh Macdonald said: “This is an extremely violent act resulting in significant damage to someone you didn’t even know.”
spitting. A spit hood was placed on him but he head-butted the officer to the cheek- bone. He had to be taken from the vehicle and more secure trans- port was arranged.” McGilligan pleaded guilty to assault by beating; damaging property; two charges of threatening another with a knife; and assaulting an emergency worker. The court heard the defendant has an extensive criminal history including offences of assault, assaulting an emer- gency worker and criminal damage. These offences were committed while he was subject to a 12-month condi- tional discharge he received in January for spitting on a store security officer. Hamish Noble, mitigating, conceded his client has a poor record. Judge Hancox said: “Taxi drivers are entitled to go about their lawful busi- ness safely. It is one thing to fall out with a taxi driver over a fare and per- haps to speak to one aggressively. But you have assaulted him in his place of work and stood outside with knives in your hand.”
DECEMBER 2020
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