IN THE NEWS
UKIP DONCASTER CONFERENCE-GOERS STRANDED AS CABBIES OFF FOR EID
Hundreds of UKIP members making their way to hotels in advance of the party’s Autumn conference opening later this weekend were report- edly left “stranded” after they discovered there were too few taxi drivers to chauf- feur the crowds. A BBC journalist claimed attendees were unable to find enough cabbies, as most were given the day off for Eid, a sacred holiday in the Islamic calendar. The annual event hon- ours a tale told in the Qu’rran, in which Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son to God before the Divine intervenes.
But many Muslim taxi drivers used the day to pray, and were excused from working
LONDON DRIVER DENIES BEING INVOLVED IN £10M RAID
A taxi driver from Hadleigh, Essex has denied his part in the plotting of the Hatton Garden raid which saw £10million of valuables stolen. According to the Basildon Echo, John Harbinson, 42, den- ied conspiring to burgle the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit in London’s jewellery quarter along with eight others when he appeared at Wool- wich Crown Court last month.
to celebrate the holi- day.
That left streams of confused Ukip confer- ence-goers confused and befuddled, unable to make jour- neys from Doncaster rail station onwards. Newspaper columnist Katie Hopkins and a BBC reporter were
also caught up in the delays.
Peter Henley from the BBC tweeted: “Huge problems for UKIP members trying to get to conference - no taxis from Don- caster station be- cause most drivers have the day off for Eid.”
EXETER DRIVER DROVE WRONG WAY ALONG DUAL CARRIAGEWAY
A taxi driver who fol- lowed his sat nav ended up driving the wrong way along a dual carriageway in the early hours of the morning.
Anthony Ryan, 58, caused a crash after he did a U turn on the dual carriageway and ended up driving towards oncoming traffic. He then did a second U turn to go to the aid of the driver he had caused to crash into the central reservation.
The Exeter Express and Echo reports that the cabbie admitted careless driving on the A30 near Exeter in May.
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He told Exeter Magis- trates’ Court he lost his bearings in the pitch dark after hit- ting major roadworks. He said he was driv- ing an intoxicated female passenger from Torquay to Exeter but she was unsure of where she was heading.
The self employed cabbie said: “I got confused. I had one eye on the sat nav. The lady was not sure where she was going. I was driving along and the sat nav told me to turn round.” He said he drove for about a quarter of a mile the wrong way down the dual car-
riageway before a driver braked heavily and swerved to avoid him and struck the barrier leaving him with minor wounds and whiplash.
His tipsy passenger claimed he passed up to three vehicles going in the right direction before he made his second U turn to face the right way again – some- thing he denied. District Judge Nicholls said: “It was a serious matter.” He fined him £785 and put seven points on his driving licence but Ryan escaped a ban which would have ruined his business.
He will stand trial in
November at a venue to be confirmed. The raid over the Easter weekend saw thieves break into the vault in London’s dia- mond district, after using a drill to bore a hole 20in deep into the vault wall. Officers believe they got into the building, which houses a num- ber of businesses, through a communal entrance before dis- abling the lift so they could climb down the shaft to the base- ment.
Once inside, the thieves ransacked 73 safety deposit boxes. After facing criticism for the way the inci- dent was handled, the Metropolitan Police apologised for not following proce- dures when receiving a call from a security firm about an intruder alert at the premises at midnight on Good Friday.
Flying Squad detec- tives rejected the suggestion they were bungling “Keystone Cops”.
£27M LOTTO WINNER ATTACKED STRABANE DRIVER IN DRUNKEN RAGE
A woman who won a lottery fortune of £27million attacked a taxi driver and smashed his glasses in a drunken rage, a court heard. Margaret Loughrey was incensed when she lost her front door keys and took out her anger on the cabbie. She grabbed his glasses, ripped the sat-nav off the windscreen and hurled a book at his head.
The cabbie drove her straight to the nearest police station and Loughrey, 50, who has given away half her fortune, spent a night in the cells. The next day she had no recollection of what happened, the court was told. According to the Daily Express, Loughrey, who was on the dole when she hit the jackpot in 2013, admitted as-
Margaret Loughrey, who has given away half her fortune, had no memory of the cabbie assault
sault and criminal damage. She was ordered to do 150 hours of unpaid work, pay £200 compensa- tion and £559 to replace the driver’s spectacles.
She had been drink- ing vodka at a friend’s house in May when she hired the cab to take her back to her home in Strabane. After the attack, she continued to behave aggressively, Stra- bane district court was told. Loughrey, who still
lives in the same £125,000 house, has given away £13.5mil- lion to her community. Last year she bought an old mill on the out- skirts of Strabane for around £1 million. She plans to trans- form the 62-acre site into a leisure and tourism centre which will house a museum, football pitches and a bowling alley.
Her defence said Loughrey’s behaviour was “hugely out of character” and would not be repeated.
OCTOBER 2015
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