IN THE NEWS
TWO MEN CHARGED OVER MANCHESTER JET DRAMA
A Briton on board the jet diverted to Stan- sted in May said: ‘I will explode this airplane in the air,’ a court has heard. According to the Mail Online, Mohammed Safdar, 41, a restaurant worker from Nelson, allegedly made the threat to kill everyone on board the plane carrying 308 passen- gers and 11 crew. Safdar and his friend, Tayyab Subhani, 30, a taxi driver and Mor- risons supermarket worker,
appeared
before magistrates in Chelmsford, charged with falsely claiming ‘that crew and passen- gers would be killed and the aircraft would be blown up before landing’.
The charges follow the drama when RAF war- planes were scram- bled to intercept a flight from Pakistan. The Pakistan Interna- tional Airlines jet had to be escorted by fighter jets into Lon- don Stansted rather than its intended desti- nation of Manchester. Outside court, Sub- hani’s elder brother, said: ‘Not everyone with a beard is evil - my brother is innocent. ‘It is shocking that someone who has done so much for the community could be linked to this. “Tayyab is just a nor- mal working-class person. I don’t know what happened on the plane. He has rung and all he is saying is
‘don’t worry’. “We sing the national anthem with pride, we are proud to be British and I know my brother would not do this.” The British-born defen- dants spoke only to confirm their names and addresses. Their lawyers said they would
deny the
charge. Both were refused bail and were remanded in custody. They are due to appear at Chelmsford Crown Court on August 5 for a plea and case man- agement hearing. Endangering an air- craft
carries
maximum sentence of life in prison. The pair had been travelling home after attending Safdar’s mother’s funeral.
LEICESTER DRIVER’S RANT ENDS WITH SICK INSULT TO GIRL
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A 10-year-old girl was left upset after an angry taxi driver said he hoped she got can- cer. The insult came after the driver went into a rant after an observa- tion by the child’s mother about where he was parked. Holly Jacobson was with her mum, Kaley, outside the A&E department of Leices- ter Royal
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when the driver asked Kaley if she wanted a taxi. She told him that her husband was about to arrive to pick them up, and offered her opin- ion that taxis should
not wait in the drop-off parking spaces out- side the hospital. Kaley said that after a “long rant” from the taxi driver, he told her “I hope your daughter gets cancer.” She told the Leicester Mercury: “We left the hospital and the taxi was in the drop-off space - there had also been two there when we arrived making it difficult to stop safely. “My little girl is ten, so she knows what can- cer means and she was really upset after- wards. She said later, ‘I won’t get cancer, will I Mummy?’” Holly’s dad, Ben, 38,
arrived moments later and saw immediately that his wife and child were upset. He asked the driver how he could saying something like that, so outrageous. “He then went off on a tirade about how he could park for up to 20 minutes where he was,” said Mr Jacobson. The taxi driver is self- employed and at the time was subcontract- ed by Club Taxis, in Braunstone
Frith,
Leicester. The compa- ny said it would no longer be sub-con- tracting any work to the driver but declined to comment further.
LIVERPOOL CABBIE’S HORROR AFTER CAR PARK DEATH FALL
A taxi driver spoke of his horror when a man died after plunging from a Liverpool city centre car park onto his cab. Peter O’Callaghan was sitting in his silver taxi outside Liverpool Lime Street station when he heard a “terrible thud”. When he got out of his vehicle
he was
shocked to see a man lying between his cab and the gutter. Following the fall, the station car park on Lord Nelson Street was sealed off as police launched an investiga- tion into the incident, which happened at around 7.30pm on Fri- day 7th June.
Mr O’Callaghan, from Swan, told the Liver- pool Echo: “I was parked up, I just heard a bang and I honestly thought someone had thrown something at the cab. I jumped out and I was looking for some kids but I heard screaming and saw him between the cab and the gutter.” Mr O’Callaghan said paramedics were at the scene within five minutes and started treating the man before putting him into an ambulance. The 53-year-old said: “I was just waiting for custom, I had been there for about 45 min- utes. I’m pretty shook
up to be perfectly hon- est. “I expect to see a cone by the side of my cab, not a crime scene.” Detectives could be seen on the third floor of the car park, from where the man was believed to have fall- en. A spokesman said the man died in hospital from his injuries and confirmed the death was not being treated as suspicious. He said: “He was taken to hospital by ambulance where he died of his injuries and an investigation is underway into the cir- cumstances of his death.”
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