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HIT AND RUN DRIVER LEAVES DERBY CABBIE’S LIVING ROOM IN RUINS AND WRECKS HIS PHV
A Derby PHV driver has been left devastated after a hit-and-run driver careered into his home and left the living room in ruins. Muhammad Khan says the last four weeks have left him “mentally finished” after a car crashed into his property and damaged his PHV, leaving him a bill for £12,000. Rubble is piled on the floor in the front room, with the wall bent in at an angle and the brickwork around the window is cracked. Mr Khan’s Toyota used for his job with PJ Cars was dented on both the left side, where the car had hit it, and on the right, where it had been forced into the lamppost outside the house on the street. The nightmare started when Mr Khan and his family were woken at 3am on March 12 to a “very power- ful bang” which Mr Khan said made the whole house shake. His sons looked out of the window to see a blue car speeding off but could not catch the registration. The police arrived in minutes but a lack of evidence is hampering their investigation. To make matters worse, when Mr Khan claimed on his insurance policy, the company found that he had failed to declare a previously void policy from five years prior. Instead of upholding his claim, they cancelled his policy entirely so the 55-year-old could not work for six weeks, and had to pay £9,000 to repair his vehicle himself as well as an extra £3,000 to cover the insurance excess on his home. To rub salt into wounds, the damage to the Toyota had been recorded as a fault of his own, and
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Mr Khan has attempted to obtain CCTV from local businesses and neighbours but was mostly told it could only be provided to authorities.
On the video footage he did obtain, the car was travelling too fast for the registration to be picked up. When the police did complete their own CCTV enquiries, they also failed to f ind evidence
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as a result he was then rejected by other insurers and quoted far more than normal for a new policy.
identify the vehicle or its driver. Derbyshire Police said: “Officers continue to make enquiries and are keen to hear from anyone who may help their investigation.”
BRUTE JAILED FOR ASSAULTING DUNDEE CABBIE COULD FACE MURDER CHARGE
A thug jailed for more than five years for assaulting a cabbie in Dundee could be tried for murder - after his victim later died. Prosecutors could bring a fresh charge against Steven Greig, 45, for savagely attacking Mark Ward, 55, in a trivial row over a cigarette. Mark was left brain-damaged and needing 24-hour care after Greig pushed him to the ground, causing him to hit his skull off concrete, and repeatedly booted him in the head in April 2022. He passed away in January following months in hospital, then a care home.
An insider said: “Mark’s loved ones are just devastated. Everybody is calling for Mark’s attacker to be charged with murder. Mark’s life has been cruelly cut short and that should be recognised by law.”
The High Court in Edinburgh heard career criminal Greig, who has 94 previous convictions for 189 offences, snapped after Celtic fan Mark refused to give him a ciggie. Greig, who fled the scene, showed no remorse as he was sentenced to five years, four months in January. He admitted assault to severe injury, permanent disfigurement, impairment and danger of life. The Crown Office said the pro- curator fiscal is considering a report in connection with the death.
JUNE 2023 PHTM
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