IN THE NEWS
MAN JAILED FOR STABBING TAXI DRIVER MULTIPLE TIMES IN STEVENAGE
A taxi driver was stabbed multiple times outside Steve- nage railway station when he told a pas- senger to pay for the fare up front or leave his car. Dobgima Gwang- waa, 20, attacked the victim with a 12- inch kitchen knife, cutting him deeply on the hand, thigh and shin. The offence hap- pened at 4pm on Saturday 8 Septem- ber 2018. Gwang- waa,
from Steve-
nage, had walk- ed down the taxi rank outside the sta- tion, asking each driver to take him to Baldock High Street. Each time he was told to pay for the fare up front, he refused and then left the car. On the last occa- sion, he slammed the passenger door then punched at the taxi driver through an open window. The driver left the car and tried to calm the situation with
waa’s backpack
Dobgima Gwangwaa
the help of col- leagues. At this point a knife fell from Gwang-
which he picked up and stabbed at the same driver, catch- ing him a number of times. He was arrested close by. Officers found the knife stashed in a nearby bush. Gwangwaa was link- ed to other offences of criminal damage, affray, possessing an offensive weapon and theft the previ- ous Sunday. He had threatened a taxi driver with a
rock hammer and smashed the tail light of the man’s car at Letchworth Garden City railway station. Gwangwaa pleaded guilty to all of the offences
at St
Albans Crown Court and on 16 January 2019 was jailed for seven years with a further three years on licence. British
Transport
Police DC Paula Bennett said: “The victim’s stab wounds were severe. He was
hospitalised and
required surgery. While his injuries will heal the emotional effects of this attack will be long lasting. “Gwangwaa is a vio- lent person. He clearly
thought
nothing of threaten- ing people with weapons to get what he wanted, and was even pre- pared to use them when things didn’t go his way. This long sentence certainly reflects the severity of his crimes.”
LONDON CABBIE WHO COST MAN HIS LEG IN CRASH GETS £1,500 FINE AND DRIVING BAN
A black cab driver who accelerated into a group of West End shoppers, leaving one man needing an emer- gency leg ampu- tation, has been fined £1,500. According to the Evening Standard, James Manley, 52, confused the accel- erator with the brake pedal as he mounted the pave- ment and pinned Andre
Straker-
Brown to a lamp- post with his car. Another
victim,
Karen Brown, need- ed stitches to a wound on her head sustained in the crash on November 1, 2017 in Southamp- ton Street. Manley also ran over the foot of a third
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pedestrian, James Stewart, as he accel- erated for 11 seconds and careered out of control before crash- ing. Southwark Crown Court was told Mr Straker-Brown was thrown into the air and that the cab pinned his left leg to
the lamppost. The crash happened as Manley was wait- ing for his partner to return a jacket to a North Face store and he tried to manoeuvre to make way for a passing van. Manley, from Camden, who had been driving a cab
for five years but has since quit, was cleared of causing serious injury by dangerous driving but convicted of two charges of care- less driving. Judge
Nicholas
James Manley now works as a postman but could find himself out of work
Loraine-Smith fined him £1,500 and banned him from the road for the next two years, saying: “As careless driving goes, in my view, it is about as bad as it can be.” Manley told police he had “accidentally hit the accelerator” and that he was “panic stricken” as his car lurched for- ward. He has been working as a post- man, but may find himself out of work due to the ban, the court heard.
PAYOUT FOR NYC TAXI CRASH AMPUTEE
A woman
has
received £116,000 in compensation six years after she had to have part of her leg
amputated
when she was hit by a New York taxi. As
reported in
PHTM, Sian Green- Lord had been visiting the city with a friend when the vehicle mounted the
kerb in Manhattan in 2013. The
29-year-old,
from Leicester, has since had a daugh- ter and got married. Taxi driver Faysal Himon, who has never faced criminal charges, blames a cyclist with whom he was having an argument just be- fore the crash.
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