JUST DESSERTS SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR ATTACK ON IPSWICH TAXI DRIVER
A teenager has avoid- ed being sent to a young offenders’ insti- tution after attacking a taxi driver.
According to the Ipswich Evening Star, Nicholas Taylor from Ipswich admitted assault by beating and using threatening be- haviour towards cab- bie Mahbub Choud- hury at Suffolk Magis-
trates’ Court. The 19-year-old was part of a group of youngsters who smashed Mr Choud- hury’s wing mirror. His passenger offered to call the police but a group member became aware of this and tried to unlock the car door. Taylor approached the open window and punched Mr Choudhury
in the nose causing him to bleed heavily. The Judge said Taylor had “behaved disgust- ingly.” But recognising his “true remorse” he sentenced him to a 16- weeks’ prison, sus- pended for a year. He imposed a curfew and an electronic tag on him and ordered him to pay compensation and costs.
JAIL WARNING FOR WOMEN WHO ATTACKED WREXHAM DRIVER
A taxi driver has re- lived the moment he was attacked by three women in a Wrexham town centre takeaway. According to the Wrexham Leader, Chelsea Edwards, 21, Karen Paula Jones, 27, and Paula Louise Evans, 42, each admit- ted assault occas- ioning actual bodily
harm against Gwilym Lloyd Jones.
CCTV footage of the attack on July 12 was shown to magistrates in Wrexham. They called it a ‘serious assault’ and said that all three could be sen- tenced at Crown Court and could face jail. The footage showed Mr Jones, 63, a driver
for Ace Taxis in Gwer- syllt, being punched on his face, punched and kicked while on the floor and then headbutted.
The three defendants were to appear back at Wrexham Magistrates Court on September 24 after a Probation Service pre-sentence report was ordered.
FOUR YEARS FOR THUG WHO THREATENED DARTFORD CABBIES
A thug has been locked up for four years after threatening to cut the throats of two taxi drivers as he robbed them. Mark Emery,
from
Erith, blew the cash on drink and kebabs after carrying out attacks in Dartford and Slade Green, Maidstone Crown Court heard last month.
Having pleaded guilty to the offences in July, he received four years imprisonment for each, to run concurrently According to the Dart- ford and Swanley Times, the court heard that on April 30, Emery
called an Erith-based taxi company to pick him up to take him to a nightclub in Dartford. While driving Emery asked the 44-year-old driver to pull over and he pulled a kitchen knife from his pocket and held it to the dri- ver’s throat and then fled with £200.
Emery fled leaving the driver with a cut to his thumb, caused when he tried to get the knife away from his neck. He was arrested in May and having con- fessed to officers, he then showed them where he had thrown the purse and knife.
Police investigations led them to believe he had committed a simi- lar robbery on April 24 in Slade Green.
The court heard Emery held a broken bottle to the neck of a 34-year-old driver and demanded money as he threatened to kill him after the driver asked for a £3.50 fare. His victim sustained a cut from the bottle as he handed over £150. Although both victims have returned to work, one feels uneasy pick- ing up youngsters from nightclubs and the other has concerns working past midnight.
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FOUR YEARS FOR TEENAGER WHO SLASHED SWANSEA CABBIE’S THROAT
A teenager who slashed a cab driver’s throat with a cider can while attempting to rob him, was given a four-year youth cus- tody order last month. Jamie Lee Morgan, 18, from Swansea, admitted attempted robbery and wound- ing at Swansea Crown Court.
According to Wales Online, the Prosecutor said that Morgan was
in the back of a cab being driven by 52- year-old Lynn Johns. Morgan, who had taken a mixture of meth- adone, spirits, cider and strong lager, sud- denly demanded the cab driver’s takings. Morgan was holding a crushed cider tin, placed his hand around the driver’s throat and Mr Johns instinctively accelerat- ed in a bid to escape.
He managed to break free from Morgan, who was left behind on the side of the road, but the driver immediately noticed two gashes in his neck which needed more than 20 stitches. The Judge told Mor- gan: “Taxi drivers are vulnerable when pro- viding a service to members of the public like you and they must be protected.”
FOUR MONTHS FOR FOOTBALLER WHO ATTACKED WATFORD CABBIE
A footballer once hailed as one of the most exciting young players in the country has been jailed for four months for a drunken attack on a taxi driver.
Ryan Crowther, who joined Liverpool Foot- ball Club, kicked and punched Syed Shah after downing around 20 shots of vodka dur- ing a night out. Crowther, now 21, was
in an uncontrollable rage after arguing with his girlfriend and police had to pepper spray him as he was pulled away from the driver.
According to the Mail Online, The incident happened last August in Watford town cen- tre.
At the time he joined Liverpool in 2007 Crowther was hailed as one of the most
exciting young players in the country.
He had arrived at the club from Stockport County where as an eight year old he had joined their youth academy before being taken on as an appren- tice at the age of 16. But he failed to make the first team at Liver- pool and appearances were limited to the reserve team during the 2007/8 season.
JAIL FOR PAIR WHO VIOLENTLY ATTACKED NORTHAMPTON CABBIE
A senior judge has warned that it is per- fectly obvious that it is in the public interest- that taxi drivers are guarded at night, as pressure grows to increase the protec- tion available to cabbies.
Detaining two defen- dants for a violent unprovoked attack on a taxi driver in Northampton, Judge Thomas Corrie said it was imperative that employees of private
hire firms were pro- tected.
The calls come in the wake of two assaults last month involving a gang of three girls who held terrified driv- ers at knifepoint, causing one of them serious slash wounds to his throat and hands as he struggled to break free.
The Northampton Chronicle reports that Judge Corrie spoke out in a case which saw two college stu-
dents unable to return for the start of the aca- demic year after taking part in a drunken attack upon a taxi driv- er.
Haydyn Darlow, 18,
from Kingsthorpe, pleaded guilty last month to assault and actual bodily harm; he was sentenced to ten months’ detention. William Miller, 18, also from Kingsthorpe, was sentenced to nine months at a young offenders’ institution.
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