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CARDIFF CABBIE JAILED FOR 15 YEARS FOR MOWING DOWN EIGHT MEN


A taxi driver was jailed for 15 years last month for mowing down eight men ‘like a bowling ball’ with his black cab. Majid Rehman, 29, deliberately used his car to run over the men on a pavement after a row at a railway station taxi rank. The Daily Mail reports that a court heard how furious Rehman delib- erately ran a red light and drove ‘at speed’ towards six railwork- ers as they walked home from the station- near the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Shocked commuters watched as his cab ploughed into the six railmen and two inno- cent passers-by in rush hour carnage. Judge Phillip Richards told him: “You sent bodies flying in all


directions, one being trapped under your car. Your intent was to cause them all serious harm. It was intolera- ble behaviour in a civilised society.” The


court heard


Rehman was on the taxi rank outside Cardiff Central


Claire train station


when a row flared with the railway workers. Prosecutor


Wilks said: “Six of the men were leaving the train station wearing high visibility orange suits. Along the way some of the group began to argue with Rehman. “Eventually they left the area. But Rehman wouldn’t let it be. He left the taxi rank and drove after them - according to one wit- ness even going through a red light.”


Majid Rehman


Two innocent men, Mark Underwood and Richard


were walking in front of the group of six on the pavement - and had nothing to do with the railmen. Miss Wilks


said:


“Rehman drove his taxi, and in a rage, mounted the pave- ment and collided with the group of eight men. It was a deliber- ate manoeuvre at some speed, knocking them down like a


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bowling ball knocking over pins in an alley. “Some of


the men


were more fortunate than others. Mark Underwood


was


trapped under the taxi and suffered signifi- cant burns to his back, legs and arms as he was wedged under the hot engine. “It was a chaotic scene, emotions were running high, and Rehman was pulled out of his taxi and assaulted.” Mr Underwood needed extensive skin grafts to his back and is still receiving treatment. Rehman told officers at the scene he drove towards the group of men after being attacked by the rail- workers on the taxi rank outside a main railway station.


He told police officers at the scene: “No one drives at people for nothing. They assault- ed me and it was in self defence.” Cardiff Crown Court heard Rehman had given evidence against one of


the railway


workers in a robbery court case in 2009. Rehman said the rail- way workers had spotted him sat in his taxi and punched him in the chest. Rehman told the jury: “I got into my cab to drive home. I don’t remem- ber driving onto the pavement and I don’t know why I did it.” It took a jury less than two hours to unani- mously convict Reh- man of deliberately knocking down eight people inflicting griev- ous bodily harm and


unlawful wounding. He admitted danger- ous driving. Judge Philip Richards said: “You used a vehi- cle as a weapon to attack other people. “If a minor incident of a punch and some abuse is met with this kind of reaction then society is going to be reduced to ruin. “This was an extreme- ly serious crime which you committed in anger following what was a modest dispute between you and a group of men return- ing home from work on the railways. “One of those men punched you once to the chest. It was by no means a devastating blow.” Rehman,


from was


also disqualified from driving for ten years.


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