TERROR TIMES...
DERRY TAXI DRIVER CHOKED FROM BEHIND SAYS HE FEARED HE WAS GOING TO BE KILLED
A taxi driver said he feared he was going to be killed during an attack in Derry. The driver, who is in his 30s, was choked from behind by a passenger he was carrying. According to Derry Now, the attack happened shortly after 10pm on 6 February, when the driver picked up a man in the Glenabbey area of the city and asked to be taken to Galliagh. “The fella looked as if he was off his head on something,” the taxi driver told the Derry News. “He was very aggressive and kept say- ing he wanted to fight me. I was trying to get him to calm down when he reached in from the back seat and
started choking me.
“He had me in a head lock and I honest- ly thought he was going to kill me. “I eventually managed to get him off me and he cleared off but if if had been one of the older drivers with my company, he could have ended up doing them serious harm or even killing them.” The driver contacted police in the aftermath of the attack and they are now investigating it. He also had to spend six hours in hospital for treatment for a swollen jaw and a sore neck he sustained during the attack. The local taxi driver said it was already a tough enough time to be trying to
ARMED POLICE STORM HOUSE IN TAMESIDE AFTER CABBIE ‘THREATENED WITH GUN’
make a living. “I am out working 12-hour shifts to try and make enough for my family. So taxi drivers are find- ing it hard enough as it stands without scumbags like this thinking they can go around attacking people for just doing their job.” A PSNI spokesperson said police received a report of an assault which occurred at the Moss Park area of Derry on Saturday night. “Enquiries are continuing and police would appeal to anyone who saw any- thing suspicious in the area at the time to contact police on 101, quoting refer- ence number 123 07/02/21,” said the PSNI spokesperson.
VIOLENT ATTACK IN MANCHESTER
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Dramatic pictures show the moment armed police stormed a property in Hyde after a ‘taxi driver was threatened with a gun’. Scores of officers, armed with guns, piled into a house in the Bradley Green Road area on the afternoon of Sunday 7 February. According to the Manchester Evening News, the response came after police were called to reports of a taxi driver being threatened with a gun on Thorn- ley Street, just under two miles from
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Bradley Green Road, at around 2.40pm. Initial enquiries established that a man got into the cab on Acresfield Road and pointed a weapon – described as a ‘hand gun’ – at the driver and told him to drive the vehicle before getting out of the car on Thornley Street. The driver wasn’t injured but was understandably shaken by the incident, Greater Manchester Police confirmed. Enquiries are ongoing and no arrests have been made.
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MARCH 2021
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