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DESSERTS NOTTINGHAM DRIVER’S DISGUST
FOLLOWING MACHETE GANG TERROR
A taxi driver who was hit on the head with a machete as he was robbed by a gang says he is “disgusted” after seeing only one of the group sent to prison. The driver, who asked not
to be named,
spoke out after Gareth Beeson, 23, was hand- ed seven years for his part in the attack on June 5. Beeson was one of five people who got into the driver’s minibus after he was called to Nine Acre Gardens in Bulwell. The driver was grabbed from behind and a machete was held to his throat. He tried to wrestle free but as he did one of
the group stole cash from his jacket pock- et as another one searched the glove compartment. The driver managed to get out of
the
minibus only to then be confronted by other members of the group. He was forced to hand over a bag of cash and was then hit on the side of the head with a machete before the group ran off. The driver was left with a six-inch cut to his head and needed 12 stitches. Beeson, from Bulwell, admitted robbery at Nottingham Crown Court last month. He
was sentenced to seven years in prison. Beeson was one of five people who were arrested in connec- tion with the robbery. Two were released without charge and two others, a man and a woman, were charged with robbery alongside Beeson but no evidence was offered in court and the case against them was dropped. After the hearing the driver told thisisnot- tingham: “They will halve [Beeson’s] sen- tence and he’ll be out in three and a half years, I feel disgusted. Only one person is serving time.”
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A man who joined in a robbery on a taxi driv- er in Leeds has been jailed for 42 months. Arthur Cooper, 29, was one of two passengers who got into a vehicle driven by Kevin Ward, on October 16. When he arrived requested the fare of £9, the
other passenger grab- bed him. His car keys were taken and Cooper joined in the struggle punching the driver in the face taking his cash bag containing around £35. According to the York- shire Evening Post,
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ROBBER GIVEN 42 MONTHS PRISON FOR ATTACK ON LEEDS DRIVER
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reasons, grabbed the cabbie’s hair, pulled the handbrake and then held him in a bear hug, while Jack Towes, now 18,
leaned forward and snatched his cash bag containing £150. The victim, a taxi driver for 13 years, managed to bring the vehicle to a halt, Teesside
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Court was told. The teenagers ran off with the cash and police were able to link them through fin- gerprints. According to the Teesside Gazette,
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told them: “This is a serious offence and there must be a custo- dial sentence in both cases.” Towes, of Middles- brough, was sen- tenced to 12 months in a young offenders’ institution, and the younger boy from Coulby Newham was given an eight-month detention and training order after they plead- ed guilty to the August 28 robbery.
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