JUST DESERTS
PERTH THUG WHO BROKE GIRLFRIEND’S NOSE BEFORE ATTACKING CABBIE IS ONLY ADMONISHED
A thug who smashed his girlfriend’s nose before attacking a cabbie with a headrest has dodged any punishment. The Daily Record reports that burly Mark Routledge, 39, chased the taxi driver, Ali Farman, round a supermarket car park and petrol station forecourt during a drunken rampage. Perth Sheriff Court was told that Rout- ledge had been at a social club with partner Claire Davidson before flying into a drunken rage. Fiscal depute Andrew Harding said: “They were consuming alcohol together and took a taxi to Asda. The accused and Ms Davidson began to argue. The accused punched her in the nose, causing it to bleed, and shouted at the driver to stop the taxi. “The taxi was unable to stop immedi- ately and the accused became angry. He removed the driver’s headrest from
the seat and struck the driver on the back of the head with it. “Mr Farman stop- ped parallel to the petrol station and got out. The accused began to chase the driver around the petrol station forecourt, shouting ‘you better run!’ “The driver ran away from the accused and contacted police.” When he was arrested, Routledge said: “I told the driver to stop. He didn’t so I battered him.” Routledge, from Perth, admitted attacking Claire Davidson by punching her on the face to her injury on 28 May last year.
He also admitted assaulting taxi driver Ali Farman by striking him on the head with a headrest and pursuing him around the Asda car park. Solicitor Pauline Cullerton, defending, said: “He is a first offender and given the salutary effect on him I very much doubt we will see him back here. “He had been having some difficulties at work and was using alcohol as a coping mechanism. This has been a one-off.”
Sheriff Euan Duthie told Routledge: “The first charge is quite a shocking description of what occurred. You have expressed both remorse and embar- rassment about what happened.” He noted that Routledge had been of good behaviour since the incident and although pleading guilty he escaped punishment, instead the sheriff verbally warned him by way of an admonition.
13 MONTHS’ JAIL FOR MOTORIST WHO JUMPED RED LIGHT IN NOTTINGHAM CAUSING CABBIE TERRIBLE INJURIES
A PHV driver suffered devastating injuries when another motorist jumped a red light and ploughed into him. Dean Beeching, 31, from Nottingham hit DG Cars driver Mohammed Aziz, who was taking a passenger home in July 2018. According to the Nottingham Post, the accident happened at 3.30am, at the junction of Hucknall Road and Arnold Road, Nottingham, when Mr Aziz was driving a DG Cars-owned Skoda Rapid and drove through a green light. Without warning he felt an enormous crash to the driver’s door and realised a car had travelled through a red light at some speed. He was in considerable pain and his passenger was screaming, Nottingham Crown Court heard on 30 March. The passenger saw from her window the headlights of Beeching’s Seat Ibiza
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were very close. She heard a crunch and realised there was a collision. She went to hospital with a cut tongue, broken teeth and bruising. But Mr Aziz was far worse off. He spent 31 days in hospital with a right collar- bone fracture, bruising and a complex hip fracture extending into his pelvis. He arrived at Beeching’s trial on crutches, but the defendant pleaded guilty to causing serious injury to him by dangerous driving, and there was no need for Mr Aziz to give evidence. DNA on an airbag in the Seat, which had exploded at the point of collision, and on other areas of the car led police to know Beeching was involved. He had not been wearing his seatbelt. Beeching was circulated as wanted by police. In February 2019, months after the
accident he surrendered to police in Nottingham. Meanwhile, Mr Aziz made a victim impact statement, saying that 20 months after the accident he still cannot walk without crutches and the right side of his leg is numb. He uses sleeping tablets and pain relief, and there is no guarantee he will be able to walk again. Mitigating, David Morton said Beeching is, “regretful and remorseful for his behaviour”. Judge Rosalind Coe banned Beeching from driving for 45 months and imposed a 13-month prison sentence for causing serious injury by dangerous driving. This was consecutive to a 29-month sentence for possession with intent to supply heroin and cocaine, and supplying cocaine in 2018.
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