UNSUNG HEROES
DOORMAN WHO WAS STABBED TWICE OFFERING FREE FIRST AID COURSES TO LIVERPOOL CABBIES
A former doorman who was stabbed twice is offering free first aid training to taxi drivers in the wake of the Liverpool Women’s Hospital bombing. The Runcorn and Widnes World reports that Simon Owen’s company, Widnes-based ESO Education and Training, provides door supervision and emergency first aid courses. And the firm is now offering free basic first aid training for taxi drivers after a passen- ger detonated an explosive outside the hospital on Remembrance Sunday. Courses run every Sunday for approxi- mately two hours. Simon is an advocate for the enhanced training at work after he was stabbed
twice – the second attack leaving him critically injured after he was knifed while working as a door supervisor in Liverpool city centre. He said: “My life was saved by the venue owner who had, weeks before,
taken a first aid course. “If not for his quick actions, I don’t think I would be here today.” The incident led him to realise the importance of bringing this training to the taxi industry and approached Halton’s taxi licensing division for first aid training for drivers. Simon added: “Every minute a victim of a cardiac arrest is not tended to, their chance of survival is reduced by six to ten per cent – and after seven minutes it is reduced to 90 per cent. “Drivers work alone with a customer who at any moment could fall ill, and they may not have the correct life saving skills to aid that person.”
BATLEY CABBIE FEARS ELDERLY MAN WAS FORCED TO CASH MACHINE AND POLICE DO NOTHING
A taxi driver has claimed he caught a man “forcing” a “90-year-old” pensioner to withdraw money from an ATM in Batley town centre at 5.30am. YorkshireLive reports that Akooji Badat has also raised concerns about how his call was handled by West Yorkshire Police with the handler ended the conversation by “clearing the line”. He has made the claims via a video uploaded to YouTube using footage taken from his car’s dash-cam which has been viewed more than 9,000 times. Alison Lowe, deputy mayor for policing and crime in West Yorkshire, has confirmed she contacted Mr Badat after seeing the video and has raised his concerns with the Chief Constable. Mr Badat, 61, says he was approaching the taxi rank in Batley town centre on Sunday morning, 9 January, when he was confronted by a man who he says was “trying to tell me to go away.” He began to “suspect something” as he drove around the corner and saw an elderly man trying to withdraw money
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from an ATM outside Lloyds Bank. “I suspected the man was trying to get the elderly man to get the money out of the bank. I stopped my car to suss out what was going on.” The man can then be heard approach- ing Mr Badat’s car for a second time, saying: “Don’t follow me!”
Mr Badat said he suspects the pensioner
had been “picked up from somewhere”. Mr Badat phoned the police. But he was left “very upset” by the “delay tac- tics” of the call handler who “asked too many questions” and wasted time in attending the scene. Police officers did arrive at the scene around 20 minutes after he first made the call. “They were very good, but it was too late,” he said.
WIRRAL CABBIE TO THE RESCUE AS HE STOPS AFTER SEEING WOMAN IN TROUBLE
A taxi driver stopped his car after seeing a woman in trouble at a garage. The Liverpool Echo reports that a man, known as ‘Roy’ had noticed the woman struggling with her car and pulled over at the Shell garage in Upton. Posting in a public Facebook group Tracy Mann said: “Thank you so much Roy from Argyle Taxis tonight at 1.45am. I finished work and had a flat tyre stopping at Shell garage in Upton.
Roy stopped and pumped my tyre up for me and then offered to follow me so I got home safe as it kept going down but I said I’ll be fine... “Just wanna say big thank you as not many people would stop and help especially that time in the morning xx” People responded to the post saying it had “restored their faith in humanity”. Pauline Edge said: “Well done Roy. Proves not all heroes wear capes x”
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