SHAME SHAME
LONDON CABBIE LOCKED UP FOR WEB PLEAS TO WITNESS IN TOUTING TRIAL
A minicab driver who used Facebook to track down a witness in his trial and subject him to a campaign of “emotional blackmail” has been jailed for ten months. According to the Hackney Gazette, Maksim Ramanouski, 21, bombarded Tom
Britney with online messages begging him not to give evi- dence after he was charged with touting. Ramanouski, from Stoke Newington, used his girlfriend’s account on the social networking site and impersonated her
while she was on holi- day abroad.
He told Mr Britney her boyfriend was a “nice man” who did not deserve a conviction. He was jailed after admitted perverting the course of justice at Snaresbrook Crown Court.
TWO YEARS FOR WREXHAM CABBIE WHO TRIED TO STRANGLE HIS EX
A taxi driver attacked and tried to strangle his former partner in his taxi - before dump- ing her covered in blood outside a rela- tive’s home. The Wales Daily Post reports that Roy Wood, 23, from Penycae, was jailed for two years after he admitted inflicting grevious bod- ily harm on Leah Corbett in February. At the time, he was on bail and had been
ordered not to contact her following an earlier attack upon her. The victim lost con- sciousness and her next memory was wak- ing up in hospital. She needed surgery and a metal plate had to be inserted in her jaw, which was fractured. Miss Corbett had been left with blurred vision and facial scarring - but still wrote a letter in his support to the judge. She told police that
she was lucky to be alive but still had feel- ings for him.
But Judge Niclas Parry said that it was a case where a complainant clearly needed to be protected from herself and he was jailed for two years. The judge told Wood: “We will never know exactly what happened in your car that evening but it must have involved an extremely high level of violence.”
PAIGNTON DRIVER FACING JAIL AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY OF SEX ATTACK
A taxi driver from Paignton is awaiting his jail sentence after being convicted of sex- ually assaulting two female passengers. Jordan Brokenshire, 28, stood trial at Exeter Crown Court accused of assaulting one woman in his cab and another at her flat just 30 minutes later. Brokenshire said the first assault on an 18- year-old never took place while the second was a consensual sex- ual encounter which ended when the 21- year-old told him to stop. The Torquay Herald Express reports that the jury took two hours to find him guilty of two sexual assaults and two counts of causing a person to engage in
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It emerged during the trial that Brokenshire had received a police warning about his con- duct in August, 2009, after a 17-year-old girl said she had been molested by him in the cab.
The trial was told how Brokenshire picked up the 21-year-old in Torquay, in the early hours of the morning. Brokenshire was arrest- ed that night while still working. He told police there had been a bit of a vibe between him and the alleged victim and they had mutually kissed and fondled at her home. Police then investigat- ed a complaint from a second woman who said he had assaulted her earlier that night.
The prosecutor said there was no reason why two women who did not know each would make similar allegations about the same man on the same night.
He said: “Clearly this taxi driver has got a problem - he can’t control himself. He’s used his position as a taxi driver to not once but twice assault young women when they’re at their most vulnerable.”
After the verdict, DC Sue Holder of Devon and Cornwall police said he was a ‘danger- ous sexual predator’. She said: “It’s been a very emotional and traumatic time for the victims who have been through a horrendous ordeal.”
FLEET DRIVER GUILTY OF CAUSING DEATH BY CARELESS DRIVING
A taxi driver from Fleet has been found guilty, at Guildford Crown Court, of causing death by careless driving. According to the Aldershot News and Mail, Nicholas Donne, 42, faced the charge following an accident on the A30 near Vir- ginia Water on June 30 last year, in which
motorcyclist Stephen Hazel was killed after colliding with Donne’s people carrier.
Donne, who had been on his way to pick up a customer, had been about to turn into a residential road when the collision hap- pened.
During the trial, he insisted that he had
been powerless to stop the crash due to the speed at which the motorcyclist had been travelling, and denied claims by the prosecu- tion that he had shown a lack of due care and attention.
Donne was to appear before Guildford Crown Court again on October 21 for sentencing.
LLANELLI CABBIE SLAMMED FOR LEAVING PENSIONER OUT IN THE COLD
A Llanelli woman has slammed a taxi driver for refusing to take a pensioner home after she “had an accident” in a supermarket. Marie Milward, of Dafen, was shopping in Asda when she spotted a pensioner stranded in the foyer. She said the 87-year-old woman had been left with no
choice but to sit alone after a taxi driver refused to let her in the vehicle for fear she would dirty the seats. She told the Llanelli Star: “The lady had an accident, and had to sit in her walker with her trolley for two hours because a taxi driver refused to take her home.
“The lady was 87 years old and went into a shiver through cold. I don’t under- stand how anyone could desert her.” The pensioner was also offered assistance from PCSO Donovan Kerr who was able to book a taxi with Fair- ways, who took the pensioner home.
CABBIES FAIL TO COME TO AID OF MAN ATTACKED AT CARLISLE TAXI RANK
Two Carlisle thugs who brutally attacked a man at a taxi rank in the city have admitted their guilt.
The late-night assault on Dumfries man Keith Stuart was captured in chilling detail by a CCTV camera, the pic- tures showing how one attacker felled him with a punch to the head from behind and the other stamped on him as he lay on the ground.
At Carlisle Magistrates’ Court, Nathan Bell, 21, and Shaun Vevers, 25, both admitted a single charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm on their victim.
The court heard that Vevers and Bell turned violent after they had enjoyed a night out with their partners in Carlisle on August 6 this year.
Adrienne Harris, prose- cuting, said that Mr Stuart had also been for a night out and had encountered the pair in Portland Place just before midnight where they exchanged words. It was as Mr Stuart, 27, was turning away from the group, next to a taxi parked on the rank, that Bell punched him in the side of the head, knocking him to the ground. Vevers then joined in with the violence, twice stamping on Mr Stuart as he lay, prone on the ground. Vevers and Bell are then caught on camera walking away leaving their victim lying un- conscious. A passer-by eventually went to his aid, and doctors later discov- ered that he had suffered bad bruising
to his head and a frac- tured eye socket. After the case, Det Insp Furzana Nazir told the News and Star: “This was one of the most violent assaults I have seen. This man was lying on the ground, uncon- scious, and he was still being hit.”
She said she could understand people not intervening in a violent incident, but ex- pressed surprise that none of the taxi drivers at the rank helped as he lay unconscious on the street.
“Nobody got out to tend to him,” said Inspector Nazir. “We are going to speak to our partners in the [council] licensing department to look what our expectations are if something like this happens again.”
PHTM NOVEMBER 2011
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