WORLDWIDE
Well, what a spread of topics this time! Let’s get the Just Desserts out of the way: how about justice against the Russian driv- er for committing heinous crimes against several of his vulnerable passengers. Then a
light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel moment for Irish driver Dolores McMahon, who now avoids driving on her ‘jinxed’ 14th. And how about the poor Serbian woman who handed her baby over to a taxi driver, rather than allow her husband to hurt her. Hey, how about travelling to Tokyo to see their newest “chameleon” taxis change colour before your eyes? Fantastic! … as is our “and final- ly”, the Ghanian driver who crammed 14 goats into his taxi. Bet they bleated slightly louder than his usual passengers!
Senior investigator Mikhail Glebov said: “He is very cold, shows no emotion, and is silent. He is calm at the interrogations, like a mummy. He acts like a victim, no vein on his face flinches, his eyes do not even blink.” Lebed’s second wife Stella initially defended him when he was accused of the sex attacks. But his first wife Anna said she divorced him after he tried to suffocate her during sex. Two senior criminal investigators, Alexey Popov and Anton Kondau- rov, were separately charged with failing to follow leads that could have seen Lebed detained earlier.
from Ireland from Russia
EVIL DRIVER WHO DRUGGED, RAPED AND KILLED CUSTOMERS IS JAILED FOR LIFE
An evil taxi driver who
drugged, raped and killed cus- tomers in a five-year reign of terror has been jailed for life. Dmitry Lebed, 33, murdered four women he believed to be drunk and attempted to kill another. The “cold” beast was also con- victed of the rape or attempted sexual assault of eight more women but prosecutors believe his true toll maybe far higher. Married Ledeb sparked fear in Abakan, Russia, during a five-year period due to “police incompetence” in following clear leads. “The taxi driver chose as his sexual prey only those women who were in a state of alcoholic intoxication, believing that they could not resist,” said the case against him. Prosecutors told the court he killed when his victims fought back, and used a drug to spike drinks he offered his victims after they got in his taxi. He sexually attacked then murdered mobile phone saleswoman Oksana Litvinova, 24, after she left a bar in the city in 2012. He dis- figured her face, before hiding her corpse in woodland. Her sister Anna said: “We could only recognise her from her clothes and man- icure.” Anna Lashkova, 22, went missing after visiting her sister to discuss preparations for being a bridesmaid at her wedding. Her sister called a taxi and Anna disappeared. Lebed confessed to killing her, dumping her body in a landfill site near Bidzha village where it is feared her remains were eaten by stray dogs. He raped and murdered 27-year-old mother of two Anastasia Bor- goyakova who left her home after rowing with her husband in summer 2015. She took a taxi and was never seen alive again. Her father Viktor Kicheev, 54, said: “We searched for her for two and a half years.” Eventually her skeleton was found in tall grass close to a remote road near Askiz village. Natalya Yakova, 30, mother of two, was killed in June 2015. Lebed at first denied the charges but later confessed. In court he said: “I repent for what I did. I apologise to the relatives of those I killed.”
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CO MEATH DRIVER AWARDED €75,000 FOR TWO CRASHES ON ‘UNLUCKY 14TH’
A judge has told a taxi driver her courage had to be admired after surviving two accidents in which she had twice been injured and in both collisions had seen her taxi damaged beyond repair. Circuit Court President Mr Justice Raymond Groarke, awarding Dolores McMahon, 57 just short of €75,000 damages for personal injury, loss of earnings and compensation for two written off taxis, said she continued to get up daily and go to work despite her phys- ical and psychological injuries. Caitriona O’Reilly, counsel for Ms McMahon, from Bettystown, Co Meath, told the Circuit Civil Court her client had suffered neck and shoulder injuries in the first accident on December 14th 2014 and lower back injury in the second which occurred on July 14th 2016. Ms O’Reilly, who appeared with Lawlor O’Reilly solicitors, said the other driver in both accidents had cut across the path of Ms McMa- hon’s taxi. She said liability had been conceded in both claims and the court was being asked to assess damages. Judge Groarke said he noted Ms McMahon no longer drove on the 14th of the month because she now considered it her unlucky num- ber but following periods of recovery after each of the accidents she had continued to get on with her taxi driving despite having been nervous about it. She told the court that as well as having suffered low back injury in the second accident it had exacerbated the neck and shoulder injuries she had suffered in the first crash just over 18 months earlier.
from Serbia
MUM DUMPED BABY ON TAXI DRIVER AS SHE FEARED ‘HUSBAND WOULD HURT IT’
A mum of seven dumped her newborn daughter in a taxi because she was afraid her husband would hurt the child. According to the Mirror, the woman had got into taxi driver Milos Mitrovic’s cab in the Serbian town of Trstenik, with her twin sons, five, and asked to be taken to a nearby town of Vrnjacka Banja. During the journey, the driver became suspicious when he heard cries coming from a basket she was carrying but heard the woman
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