IN THE NEWS JUSTICE FOR HORNSEY CABBIE KILLED BY LIQUID COCAINE DISGUISED AS RUM
Justice has finally come for a kind-heart- ed Hornsey cab driver killed after drinking pure liquid cocaine. The family of Lascelle Malcolm, 63, from Hornsey, north Lon- don, branded the drug smuggler found guilty of his manslaughter as “deceitful and selfish”. Martin Newman, 49, from Romford, was handed a 20-year jail term by a judge at Croydon Crown Court last month.
Mr Malcom’s wife Gre- tal welcomed the sentence and said it helped put an end to the “living nightmare” her family were trapped in as they awaited the trial.
The grieving widow
said: “My husband paid the ultimate price for Martin Newman’s deceitful, selfish and dangerous operation. “Justice was served today when he was convicted of drug importation and the manslaughter of my husband. The last 14 months have been a living nightmare for our family, and we were left with so many unan- swered questions. Now we can begin to build our lives again and remember Las- celle as the loving, kind-hearted man he was. He will surely be missed by all of his family.”
She heaped praise on prosecutor Oliver Glas- gow for all his hard
work, as well as the police, witnesses and jurors.
The court heard how Mr. Malcolm, of Har- ringay, had unwittingly consumed the liquid cocaine, which was disguised in a bottle of Bounty Rum, after being handed the drink as a gift on May 25, 2009.
Earlier that day the father-of-two had offered to collect close friend, Antoinette Corlis, in his taxi as she returned to Gatwick Airport after a holiday in St Lucia. He drove Ms Corlis back to her Haringey home and refused to accept cash for the favour,
but, fatefully,
accepted the bottle of rum which she had
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been brought back from the Caribbean. Ms Collis was asked to carry the drink by a friend who had been asked to carry the bot- tle on Newman’s behalf not knowing what it contained. Newman, who was on the same flight, knew the bottles each con- tained 8.7oz of pure cocaine dissolved into the alcohol and that just one teaspoon of the liquid would be fatal.
He had intended to col- lect the bottles, worth £20,000, from Mr Lawrence when they arrived at Gatwick, but customs officers inter- cepted Newman before he could retrieve them. As Mr. Lawrence was unable to find Newman he kept one of the bot- tles and handed the other to Ms Corlis who tragically gave it to Mr Malcolm.
After just a few sips, the cab driver fell ill and was rushed to the Whittington Hospital on May 26.
He was later dis-
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charged, but col- lapsed at home after suffering a heart attack triggered by the pure cocaine.
It was only when his friends Charles Roach, 41, and Trevor Tug- man, 38, arrived at his house to pay their respects that the true cause of his death was discovered.
The friends raised a toast in their friend’s honour using the same bottle of rum, and both suffered seizures. DC Paul Coyle, of Haringey CID, told the Haringey Independent:
“This was a tragic case which saw a good deed ended in a father’s death. Mr Mal- colm had only wanted to assist a friend who in turn had only wanted to thank him. Had Newman not arranged for the deadly drug to be imported the tragic sequence of events would never have occurred.
“Mr Malcolm’s family and friends have been left devastated by his death and his two close friends who visit- ed his home were lucky to survive.”
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A taxi driver had to be rescued from the roof of his car after the vehicle plunged down a steep bank into water in Gorefield last month.
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The incident happened at around 7.00am, and two crews from Wis- bech, one crew and a rescue vehicle from Dogsthorpe were called to attend the vehicle stranded in the dyke. Firefighters arrived to find one man, who had managed to escape, and another man - the driver - who was sit- ting on the roof. The water was about eight to 10 feet deep. Phil Pilbeam, Watch Manager at Wisbech
Fire fighters use specialist equipment to rescue the stranded driver.
Fire Station, told the Fenland Citizen: “We immediately threw a life jacket to the man and a floating line to keep him safe in case he fell into the water. “We then used the ice rescue path, which is an inflatable platform which was placed to link the river bank and
the car. “Two firefighters wear- ing dry suits then walked across the plat- form and rescued the man.
“The man was cold, with some cuts and bruises, but was not believed to be seriously harmed. He was taken to hospi- tal by ambulance.”
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