IN THE NEWS
LIVERPOOL CABBIE PUT TRACKER ON EX’S CAR AND CALLED HER UP TO 30 TIMES A DAY
A taxi driver put a tracker on his ex partner’s car a year after they split up because she had a new boyfriend. According to the Liverpool Echo, a court heard Michael Lonsdale had “moved on” but when he learned his ex was in a new relationship he began stalking her. Diane Caird had to install CCTV at her home after the 48-year-old kept turn- ing up unannounced and even put a tracker on her car, leaving her “like a prisoner in her own home”. Amanda York, prosecuting at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court on 13 May, said the couple had been together for 16 years before they split around one year ago “due to the behaviour of the defendant”. Ms York explained their split was “ami- cable” and said they shared a daughter. She said: “Over the last couple of months the complainant began to spend time with a male.” Ms Caird told her daughter and Lons- dale about the relationship and didn’t think it would be a problem as “he had moved on”.
His victim said “how wrong I was”
adding that “she knew she was going to have problems” after telling him. Lonsdale called her “between 20 and 30 times”, which she mostly ignored but when she answered he said
“I’ll see you when you get home” which led her to think he was in her house. He also told her “I’m waiting for you” but Ms Caird clarified he was never threat- ening. Ms York explained when she got home she had to wait outside for him to leave before she could go in. She said: “Throughout the course of the evening she received calls and mostly buttoned the phone and didn’t want to speak to him.” While on the phone to a friend Ms York explained Ms Caird had been “poking fun at him” and “laughing” about Lons- dale. She said as soon as Ms Caird hung up the phone Lonsdale called her and
LEICESTER CABBIE ADMITS CARELESSLY CAUSING DEATH OF A WOMAN
A taxi driver who fatally injured a woman pedestrian was warned by a judge to expect a prison sentence. LeicestershireLive reports that Anis Mohamed admitted causing the death of Natasha Baker, 37,
by carelessly
driving a Vauxhall Vivaro minibus in Evington, in January last year. The tragedy happened at 4.10am near an entrance to the General Hospital. Ms Baker, of Leicester, sustained seri- ous injuries and later died. Mohamed, also from Leicester, pleaed guilty at Leicester Crown Court. His barrister, Grahame James, said the
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defendant, 64, is a family man who had no previous convictions. Judge Timothy Spencer QC postponed sentencing until June. He told Mohamed: “You’ve pleaded guilty to a very serious offence. You are looking at being locked up. You need to be as prepared as you can be to go to prison when I sentence you.” Mohamed was given an interim driving disqualification, pending the next hear- ing. Before being released on bail, he acknowledged that he understood he was being immediately banned from driving.
when she answered he was swearing “how dare you, you ungrateful t***”. Ms York said: “Obviously he had been listening in to that phone call while she was sat in the chair beside the window, no doubt the defendant was listening to her conversation.” He later turned up at 2.30am and shouted through the letterbox. Ms York explained Lonsdale had turned up on occasions with “no problems” when he looked after his daughter, but on October 19 he posted letters through her door asking her to dis- tribute what she believed to be suicide notes among family members. After setting up security lights and CCTV at her home she woke up on October 20 to “several alerts” from the system. The footage showed Lonsdale walking past the house before being spotted again 32 minutes later having circled the block. Ms York said he then approached her car and “looked as if he was holding something in his hand” and was then seen “lying on the floor”. She discov- ered he had put a tracker on her car when she went to check the next day. Ms Caird said she is “still suffering from the effects of his behaviour” and “after what’s happened I don’t feel safe”. Lonsdale has no previous convictions. Callum Ross, defending, said Lonsdale, who has been a taxi driver for 26 years, claimed he put the tracker on the car as he was worried “she was going to take his daughter away” and he “wouldn’t know where they were going”. Lonsdale, of Ellesmere Port, admitted one count of stalking involving serious alarm or distress. Magistrates handed Lonsdale: a one- year community order with 20 Rehabilitation Activity Requirements and 200 hours of unpaid work, a three- year restraining order preventing Lons- dale from contacting Ms Caird. and he was ordered to pay £200 compensa- tion, £85 costs and £95 victim surcharge.
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