22 PRIVATE HIRE AND TAXI MONTHLY
SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
CABBIE KICKED GRAN IN VICIOUS ATTACK
A rogue taxi driver left an injured and distressed grand- mother lying on the pavement after a dis- pute over the fare. Iris Savers had been out for a night on the town with the girls when she decided to get a taxi from Grey’s Night- club in Newcastle to her home.
But during the jour- ney there was a dispute over the fare and the taxi driver raced off from her home to Bea-
consfield Street, Newcastle, where he pulled Iris from the taxi and kicked her.
He sped off, leaving the distressed 53- year -old grandmother-of-six lying on the pave- ment unable to get up in freezing con- ditions. Her arm was broken and the bone in her elbow had been chipped. In shock, Iris told the Newcastle upon Tyne Evening Chronicle: “We got
back to my house and he asked for £9.50. I told him I would give him a fiver as that was all I had. He was ranting and raving on. So I told him I would get some money off my husband. But he reversed and drove off. At the time I thought he was try- ing to frighten me. “I asked him where he was going and he stayed quiet. That’s when I got really scared.
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knew he was pulling me out of the taxi. He threw me to the ground and kicked me. I had a severe pain in my arm and then the taxi sped off. I was crying out for help as I was in so much pain and I couldn’t get up.” Around ten minutes later,
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who that was as he was so kind and I would like to thank him. I don’t want this kind of thing to ever happen to anyone else. I thought he was going to murder me.”
Detectives are appealing for wit- nesses. The taxi was a dark-coloured saloon car and the driver is described as medium build, with dark hair, olive skin complexion and he speaks with a for- eign accent. Police
are also keen to speak to the taxi driv- er who came to Iris’s aid.
Mmmm - we would also wish to extend our gratitude to the driver who rescued Iris from such a hor- rendous and dispicable incident at the mercy of another licence hold- er. Surely the term ‘fit and proper’ could never be used to describe any driver who would treat his passenger in such a manner. - Ed.
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