TERROR TIMES
BIRMINGHAM TAXI DRIVER CONSIDERING QUITTING THE TRADE AFTER ROAD RAGE ORDEAL
These are the bruised features of cab- bie Jamil Bashir, the alleged victim of a shocking road rage attack. And Jamil, a Birmingham black cab driver for 25 years, said the violence was the latest in a spike of assaults on taxi drivers. According to the Birmingham Mail, the 53-year-old has informed police of the incident in Warwick Road, Acocks Green, and has received a crime reference number. But he said he was angry at a delay in officers taking a statement from him. Jamil is now considering quitting the job. “Is it worth it?” he said. “If some- thing like this happens, I can’t get out of my cab because I could lose my licence. “I’m now fearful of driving and that’s never happened before. “Since lockdown was lifted things have been really bad, I don’t know what’s wrong with people.” Jamil was X-rayed at Edgbaston’s
“I think he was looking for trouble,” he said. “He was driving at 10mph in front of me. When traffic lights turned green, he didn’t move, then went through them on red.
“Someone sounded their horn and he started shouting and showing the finger. He then braked so hard I almost went into the back of him.”
Queen Elizabeth Hospital and missed a day’s work through blurred vision. “The father-of-three told police he was repeatedly punched on the morning of June 11, his attacker hurling blows through the cab’s open window. A passenger in the taxi was “frozen” with fear, he said. Disturbingly, Jamil claimed that the assailant had two young children in his vehicle.
Jamil said he pulled alongside the angry driver and told him, ‘there’s no need for that’. “The individual, described as in his 40s and 6ft tall, responded by leaving his own vehicle and throwing punches. “The punches kept coming,” said Jamal. “I was trying to fend them off. My passenger was just frozen. He kept saying, ‘that wasn’t your fault’.” “I was really shook-up, it’s the first time I’ve been assaulted on the job.” A spokesperson for West Midlands Police confirmed no arrest has been made and enquiries continued.
“HE’S GOT A F*****G GUN...”: GUNMAN OPENED FIRE AT HOUSE AND SALFORD TAXI OFFICE
A gunman who opened fire at two separate shootings faces a lengthy jail sentence. Aaron Gray, 25 pulled the trigger at a cab office in Salford then shot at a house in Whitefield. The Manchester Evening News reports that no-one was hurt in either incident. Prosecutors alleged that Gray was the gunman and that drug dealer Dominic Hughes, 28, was also involved. Both were convicted of involvement and face lengthy spells in jail. Manchester Crown Court heard that a woman was working at the Swan taxis office on Church Street in Eccles at about 10pm on December 8, 2019. After hearing a ‘loud bang’ at the door, she went to check who was there. “She looked through the window and
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she saw there was a man stood with a gun,” prosecutor Andrew Ford QC told jurors. “He was pointing the barrel of the gun towards her.” Mr Ford said the woman shouted to a colleague: “He’s got a f****** gun.”
Shortly after she heard a ‘loud bang’. “It need hardly be said, it was terrify- ing,” Mr Ford said. Police recovered a single 9mm fired cartridge case. Officers later recovered a Glock pistol found ‘dumped’ in a wheelie bin nearby. to which both Gray and Hughes were forensically linked. A second shooting occurred on February 25, 2020, at a house in Whitefield, Bury where a bullet was fired at ‘chest height’ through the living room window. Gray and Hughes denied possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life and possessing ammunition with intent to endanger life in relation to the shoot- ings but were found guilty and are due to be sentenced at a later date.
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