TERROR TIMES
UBER DRIVER LEFT WITH BROKEN NOSE IN RACIST ATTACK IN BRIGHTON ON CHRISTMAS DAY
An Uber driver’s nose was broken in a racist attack on Christmas Day. Mansoor Ahmad, 32, who lives in Brighton, decided to work on Christ- mas day to “help the community”. But he suffered brutal cuts to his nose from punches to the face when he refused to carry on with a customer’s lift.
He picked up three people at 9pm on Christmas day in Brighton. The passen- gers wanted to stop off somewhere and Mr Ahmad said he told them they would need to add the stop into the app, in line with Uber policy. After this one of the customers accused him of ripping them off and started shouting racist remarks towards him, which resulted in him can- celling the trip on Bevendean Road, Brighton.
He then opened the passenger door of the car and the boot so they could take
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and Mr
Ahmad explained the harrowing details as
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male passenger, who was already in a “bad mood” since he picked them up, violently assaulted him. He told The Argus: “He called me a f****** refugee and f****** Paki, and said you’re ripping us off and making money off us. I said I don’t deal with the fares, that is Uber. “I cancelled the job and they were still sitting in the car, they were not going out because it was raining but I asked them to be respectful and they said they were not going out of the car. “I thought when I opened the boot they
STONES SMASH TAXI WINDSCREEN IN WELWYN GARDEN CITY
A cabbie was shocked when a stone smashed through his rear windscreen while he was sat inside his parked vehi- cle in Welwyn Garden City. The Welwyn Hatfield Times report that the incident occurred on Fretherne Road at 8.40pm on Wednesday, December 29. It is believed that a stone was thrown at the vehicle from the roof of Osborn House. Saniya Chaudhry, the daughter of the taxi driver,
said: “My dad has been
affected greatly. His vehicle is his source of income and now he is unable to work because of this. His car cannot be repaired until January 5. “New years is a very busy time for him and because of the ongoing Omicron variant, he is not making enough money due to the fall in customers.”
JANUARY 2022
were going to come and get their stuff anyway. I still believed they were in the car because they refused to go out but the guy was already out on the left hand side of the car, I didn’t even see him in the dark. “Then I saw a white flash in front of my eyes for about 10 to 15 seconds with the first punch, then as I saw him, he was out in front and gave me another punch. “I saw blood on my hands and said I would call the police, the other per- son said ‘go, go, go!’ so he started running away. Then another person grabbed the stuff and ran away with them.”
Mr Ahmad said his nose did not stop bleeding for two days after the inci- dent and he would wake up with blood on his pillows.
Saniya also believes that the offenders access the roof by climbing up the fire exit stairs at the back of the flats, climbing over the railings and walking along the wall to reach the roof. Enquiries are ongoing and any witness- es or anyone with information should call the non-emergency number 101 quoting crime reference 41/102074/21.
He added: “It has been five days and the police haven’t been in contact, they have just given a crime reference num- ber. I don’t think Uber really care about these things. Every driver you ask, they don’t feel safe and are scared. “The police arrived at A&E and took my statement. They dropped me home, since then I have not heard anything from them.” The father-of-one, who has lived in England for 12 years, says the incident has broken him to pieces and he is too afraid to leave his house. Since the assault Mr Ahmad said he also might not be able to go on holiday in January to his native Pakistan to see his wife and one-year-old daughter, who he has not met since the pandemic. A Sussex Police spokesman said: “The offence has been recorded as a racially aggravated assault, an investigation is under way and there are several lines of enquiry. “We are sorry that the victim has not been updated sooner, but we have now spoken to him, reassured him that the investigation is under way and that officers will keep him updated.”
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