TERROR TIMES
PAIR APPEAR IN COURT AFTER TAXI STOLEN IN NOTTINGHAM THEN CRASHED IT INTO ANOTHER CAB
Detectives investigating after a taxi was stolen from its driver during a robbery have charged two suspects. Officers were called to Lower Parliament Street, in Nottingham, at around 11pm on 5 October following reports the victim had been attacked after dropping off two people. When he asked for payment, the driver was forced out of the vehicle and assaulted before his vehicle
was driven away and later involved in a collision with another taxi. Officers from the force’s Road Crime Team later tracked down the taxi in Clifton and arrested a man and a woman. Officers suspected one occupant of the vehicle was intoxicated and also found a bag of white powder when undertaking a search. Jake Sutherland, 28, from Derby, has been charged with robbery.
Lizzie Smith, 27, also from Derby, has been charged with robbery, failing to provide a specimen for analysis, failing to stop after a road accident, driving without due care and attention and driving without a licence or insurance. Both appeared at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Saturday 7 October, and will next appear at Nottingham Crown Court on 6 November 2023.
SERIAL WOMAN OFFENDER ASSAULTS TAXI DRIVER IN INVERNESS AFTER ROW OVER FARE
A woman abused a taxi driver from the Middle East, a Polish national and a black woman, telling her that she was a racist before swinging a punch and spitting at her victim. The offences took place between February 2022 and July 2023 after Kimberley Fraser had left voice- mails for a former boyfriend which contained a tirade of abuse and threats to him and his new partner. Fraser, 40, from Inverness, appear- ed from remand by video link at Inverness Sheriff Court to admit a total of eight charges on one indictment, which originally contained 24 accusations. They were a contravention of the Communications Act; three of assault, two of hindering police, one of threatening behaviour and another of racist conduct. Sentence was deferred until November 13 by Sheriff Gary Aitken for a background report and Fraser was again remanded in custody. The court heard Fraser phoned her
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ex and left two voicemails threatening to mutilate the genitals of both him and his partner and saying “I’m going to kill you”. Five days before the second call, Fraser, two men, a woman and a baby were picked up by the cabbie who was asked to take them all to Lochardil Road in Inverness. Fiscal Emily Hood told the court: “On arrival, a disagreement ensued with the accused over the fare. She was trying to get the pushchair out of the boot.” Ms Hood said the taxi driver warned her he would call the police and she tried to punch him in the face but he blocked it. “She then kicked his leg and pushed him against the taxi, continuing to kick him until he got around to the driver’s door. The sheriff then heard of an incident at Burnett Road Police Station in October 2022 when
Fraser became abusive towards officers, shouting and swearing incoherently, racially abusing one of the custody suite officers and spitting at police and staff. Ms Hood narrated another offence in Eastgate Shopping Centre in January 2023 after Fraser was arrested on another matter. “She resisted arrest but was controlled to the ground by officers but continued kicking out with her legs and trying to spit at officers. In the police van she bit a police officer on the left forearm, penetrating the skin. “She is known as an intravenous drug user and follow up blood testing had to be carried out.” In July, Fraser was in an Inverness bar when she joined two people uninvited before saying to one of them: “She’s black.” Ms Hood went on: “She said she didn’t like black people and said she was a racist. The pair left but Fraser followed and punched the woman in the face and spat at her.”
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