JUST DESERTS
DRUNK THUG WHO TERRORISED CABBIE IN DEAD-END ROBBERY IN LIVERPOOL JAILED FOR 56 MONTHS
A veteran taxi driver was violently robbed near Anfield Stadium after being lured down a dead-end road by his passenger. Just one month after being released from prison for a similar offence, Vincent O’Connor choked and robbed Kenneth Green, stealing his day’s earnings. O’Connor, 37, hired Green for a £70 fare from Eccles to Liverpool on 2 November last year. Prosecutor Katie Appleton told Liverpool Crown Court that O’Connor had initially tried to haggle the price down to £65, but Green insisted on the agreed-upon £70 upfront. As they neared their destination, O’Connor, a former gang member, directed Green down a dead-end
street. There, he grabbed Green from behind and violently twisted his neck. After Green handed over an empty wallet, O’Connor sneered: “Do you think I’m wet?” and bit him on the cheek. Green then gave him another wallet containing £140. “The victim said he has been a taxi driver for 34 years and has never experienced something so violent in all that time,” Ms. Appleton told the court. “He says the incident has left him frightened and he didn’t know if he would return to work. O’Connor has 47 prior convictions
for 95 offences, including a 2021 robbery where he threatened a woman with an angle-grinder. Judge David Swinnerton, sen- tencing O’Connor who refused to appear in court, emphasised the severity of the crime. “He had been drinking heavily which caused him to
behave aggressively. That
culminated in this offence,” the judge stated. “This now is the second robbery within a very short space of time where a high level of physical force was used.” O’Connor was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison for the robbery, with an extended licence of five years due to the danger he poses to the public and the high risk of re-offending.
CARLISLE WOMAN TAGGED & TO PAY COMPENSATION FOR RACIALLY ABUSING & ASSAULTING CABBIE
A Carlisle woman has attacked a taxi driver after a dispute arose over payment, leading the driver to refuse service. Amy Thompson, 32, entered a cab around 8:30pm on 5
September last year. According to Prosecutor Diane Jackson, Thompson then refused to leave the vehicle, prompting police intervention. While officers were
SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR DRUNK WHO PUNCHED CABBIE IN PETERBOROUGH
A man has been sentenced after a drunken, unprovoked assault on a cabbie in Peterborough. Mathew Warner, 27, punched the driver in the face after being driven home in the early hours of 26 January. The victim had picked up Warner in Bourne after police instructed him to leave the area due to his intoxication.
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Following the assault, the driver contacted police, leading to Warner’s arrest. On 27 January Warner admitted to assault by beating at Huntingdon Magis- trates’ Court where he received a six-week prison sentence, suspended for one year, and was ordered to pay £200 compensation to the taxi driver.
present, Thompson made a racially abusive comment, which was recorded, and then “punched him on the top of the head,” Jackson told Carlisle Magistrates’ Court. Thompson admitted to the charge of racially aggravated assault by beating. She claimed she intended to pay the fare at her destination, and expressed remorse, stating: I’ve been out of trouble so long. I’m not a racist. I was very drunk. I had had a horrible day.” Magistrates, however, emphasised the severity of the offence due to its racial nature. Thompson was sentenced to
a six-month
electronically monitored night-time curfew and ordered to pay £200 compensation to the taxi driver.
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