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Taxi firms across Lin- coln are calling for a clampdown on bogus drivers.
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Drivers from the Lin- coln Taxi and Private Hire Association say the problem is a grow- ing issue in the area. Mick Crow, managing director of Direct Cars based in Silver Street, said the police should be clamping down more on bogus drivers. “The police are allow- ing the problem to happen,” he told the Lincolnshire Echo.
“They need to do more about it as the council has got its hands tied in a lot of ways.” But police spokesman Dick Holmes said the issue of bogus taxi drivers is the duty of the City of Lincoln Council.
“Obviously the issue of licensing is the coun- cil’s responsibility,” he said. “However, we would tell anyone who thinks they have seen a bogus taxi to note the car’s registration and phone the police.”
Chris Weston, who drives for Clasketgate- based Handsome Cabs, said: “It costs me £57 a day just for my car to sit outside my house,” he said. The punishment for operating a bogus taxi can be up to a £1,000 fine for the driver and the owner.
And if they have no insurance the driver and owner can be given a £5,000 fine plus six to eight penal- ty points on their driving licence.
A teenager was driven to a secluded industri- al estate and raped before being dumped at the scene. Police have released details of the horrific attack, which may have involved a bogus taxi driver.
According to the New- castle upon Tyne Evening Chronicle, the 19-year-old student had been on a night out in Newcastle city centre when she became separated from friends.
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She ended up at the Get Stuffed takeaway restaurant, on St Mary’s Place, which she left at around 4am, before getting into a car she thought was a taxi. The victim was then driven to the Hawick Crescent Industrial Estate, off St Lawrence Road, Walk- er, in the East End, where she was raped. It comes after a sepa- rate investigation was launched into the rape of a 17-year-old the
STUDENT REVELLER RAPED IN NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE following day.
The victim was attacked in her own home after being dropped off in Walker in a taxi, having been in Newcastle earlier. Detectives are not link- ing the two attacks. Det Insp Tim Miley, of Northumbria Police’s specialist Rape Investi- gation Team, said of the latest incident: “We are carrying out a full investigation into this very serious assault on a young woman. “The victim was left very distressed and is being given a range of support.” The 19-year-old got in the car in the city cen- tre, possibly near to the Get Stuffed eatery. CCTV footage of the area shows a dark car with its lights off pulling out of the industrial estate at around 4.40am. It headed towards St Peter’s Basin where it passed a white taxi driving out of St Peter’s Basin.
It then turned round and drove on to Glass House Street, heading towards Walker Road. Det Insp Miley said: “We urgently need to trace the dark car seen near the scene.
“I’m also keen to speak to the driver of a white taxi which drove past the dark car on St Peter’s Basin at short- ly after 4.40am.
“The dark car was dis- tinctive in that it had its lights off. We also need to speak to any- one who saw the girl in St Mary’s Place ear- lier on.
“She was wearing a red tie, red braces, green checked shirt, black shorts and short boots. I would like to hear from anyone who may have seen this girl get into a car, there were a number of taxis in the area.”
Anyone with informa- tion is asked to contact Northumbria Police on 03456 043 043 or ring Crimestop- pers on 0800 555 111.
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