NIGHTMARE CABBIE ATTACK
SWANSEA TAXI DRIVER REPEATEDLY STABBED BY TWO TEENAGERS AND LEFT TO DIE OVER £6 FARE
A cabbie was attacked and repeatedly stabbed by two teenage passengers who left him lying in a pool of blood in the street. Only emergency first aid by a man living nearby and the swift action of paramedics and doctors saved the taxi driver’s life. Megan Jones, prosecuting, told Swansea Crown Court said that at 12.30pm on June 29 this year a Yellow Cabs taxi collected Kyle Parsons and Ludvik Rac from the firm’s base. The teenagers asked first to be taken a social club but changed the destination en route, to go to old Swansea Boys Club building in Mayhill. Once at the abandoned building the teenagers told the cabbie to stop, and they got out of the vehicle and launched an attack on the driver which almost cost the 58-year-old cabbie his life. Rac pulled the taxi driver from the car and assaulted him before Parson produced a large knife which he began swinging at the driver. Rac jumped into the driver’s seat of the car but was dragged out by the cabbie, and Parson then repeatedly stabbed him in the leg and buttocks - one of the stab wounds severed a major artery causing massive loss of blood. The teenagers ran off and the stricken taxi driver tried to staunch the flood of blood by wrapping his own belt around his thigh but was unable to do so due to the pain. By chance a man living nearby, Phillip Bowler, was putting his bins out and saw the cabbie in a pool of blood on the ground. He used a towel to make a tourniquet to stop the bleeding, and the court heard
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his actions in those first crucial minutes saved the cabbie’s life. Paramedics arrived and rushed the victim to hospital having lost around two litres of blood from the multiple wounds. In emergency surgery doctors were able to save his leg and save his life. The prosecutor said later that day Parson spoke to his sister and told her he had stabbed a taxi driver over a £6 fare. He also told her that he and Rac had been planning to rob someone at a cash point but that had not worked out, and that Rac had tried to steal the taxi. The court heard Parsons also posted a video of himself on Instagram rapping about how he and “Ludo” had stabbed a taxi driver and how he was now on the run. Police quickly identified the two suspects, and arrested them. In a victim impact statement the cabbie described the devastating physical and emotional impact of the attack. He said he had worked long hours as a taxi driver for 25 years - a job he had always enjoyed but could now no longer do. He said he had been subjected to “inexplicable violence” by two young men who had enjoyed what they did to him, adding it was not a robbery gone wrong but an attack carried out by people who
were looking for violence. The cabbie said as he lay on the road waiting for an ambulance he thought his life was over, and he said he wanted to thank Mr Bowler, medical staff, and police for everything they had done. Kyle Richards Parsons, of no fixed abode, and Ludvik Rac, of Cardiff, had both previously pleaded guilty to attempted robbery when they appeared for sentencing. Parson had also pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent, and possession of a bladed article. Parsons has nine previous con- victions for 19 offences including sexual assaults, exposure, batteries, criminal damage, and affray. Rac has no previous convictions. Judge Hywel James said the late- night attack on the taxi driver must have been one of the most frightening incidents to have hap- pened on the streets of Swansea. With discounts for his guilty pleas, Parsons was made the subject of a ten-and-a-half year extended sentence as a dangerous offender comprising seven-and-a-half years in custody followed by a three year licence period. He can apply for release after serving two-thirds of the custodial element of his sentence but the Parole Board will determine if he is safe to be released, and on what conditions. With a discount for his guilty plea Rac was sentenced to four-and-a- half years’ detention in a young offenders institution. He will serve up to half of that in custody before being released on licence to serve the remainder in the community. PHTM sends our best wishes to the Yellow Cabs driver.
NOVEMBER 2022 PHTM
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