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CABBIE MOWED DOWN MAN WITH HIS PINK HACKNEY IN PAISLEY TAXI RANK ROW
A cabbie who mowed down a man in Paisley town cen- tre after a row at a taxi rank has been banned from driv- ing.
Jim Corbett mount- ed the kerb in a pink hackney and ran over Christopher Flannigan. Corbett, 73, denied a charge of dangerous driving but was recently convicted following a trial at Paisley Sheriff Court. Prosecutors claimed he hit Flannigan after the pair began rowing and he “lost the rag.”
Blair Dalgleish, 24,
said he climbed into the back of the hackney after a night out with pals – and watched as Cor- bett hit Flannigan while he was in the car. He explained: “There was an argument between a taxi driv- er and a boy. The driver put his foot on the accelerator. The boy jumped out of the way. He went to drive away, and the boy kicked the pas- senger side door. “The taxi mounted the kerb and hit the boy. He hit the ground. The taxi reversed and the
Jim Corbett and his pink taxi cab
boy got up. I could see he was hob- bling.” The incident was captured on CCTV and the footage was played to the court.
Corbett was quizzed by police who were treating the incident as attempted mur- der, after they stopped him when he returned to pick
up more passengers later on the same night. He told detectives he’d tried to “chase” Flannigan away with the car be- cause he had tried to steal a bike locked against some railings. Corbett gave evi- dence in his own defence, claiming he became angry when his motor was kicked during the spat. The court was also shown dashcam footage which show- ed Corbett racing towards the lad and mounting the pave- ment – showing
Flannigan disap- pearing from shot in front of the motor. Sheriff MacCartney said he had no doubt of Corbett’s guilt and convicted him of the offence. He could have jailed Corbett for up to 12 months for the offence but, after hearing he was a first offender at the age of 73, he fined him £400 and banned him from driving for 12 months, ordering him to sit and pass the extended driving test before getting behind the wheel again once his ban is over.
NEWBURY DRIVER WHO RAPED AND SEXUALLY ASSAULTED FOUR WOMEN PASSENGERS JAILED FOR 14 YEARS
A taxi driver has been jailed for 14 years after admit- ting a series of sex attacks on drunk and vulnerable cus- tomers. The rapist was caught after police obtained and re- viewed hundreds of hours of CCTV and took statements from a large number of witnesses. The Daily Mail reports that Ruhen Miah, 42, from New- bury and of Bangladeshi origin, used his job as a licensed taxi driver to attack four women who were trying to get home safely after a late night out in New- bury town centre.
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The attacks on the four women took place in the January and February of this year.
In the first incident, Miah sexually as- saulted a woman in her late teens in his taxi at an unknown location in That- cham on Monday 1st January 2018. She had been out cele- brating the New Year in Newbury. On Saturday 20th January, another woman who had also been on a night out in Newbury flagged down Miah's taxi in Mayors Lane in the early hours of the morning. He assaulted her in his taxi at an unknown location while driv-
Ruhen Miah
ing her home. Later during the same shift, Miah sex- ually assaulted and tried to rape anoth- er woman in her late teens in the taxi - also at an unknown location. Thames Valley Police said the final offence happened in the early hours of
Saturday 24th Feb- ruary. The taxi driver picked up a woman in her twenties, near the roundabout at Inches Yard. He drove the taxi to a property in New- bury where he then raped her. She was the fourth victim involved in the court case.
Judge Angela Mor- ris, sentencing at Reading Crown Court, told Miah that some of the victims were “so intoxicated they had no chance of defending them- selves against your sexual offending”. The judge said there was “a degree of targeting” in Miah’s behaviour and he had abused the trust
not just of his vic- tims but also the friends who had put them in his taxi and urged him to get them home safely. Miah was sentenced to 14 years’ impris- onment for rape, five years for assault by penetration, eight years for an at-tempted rape and 18 months each for two counts of sexual assault. He had previously pleaded guilty to all counts. The sen- tences are to be served concurrently. There were two vic- tims who reported being attacked. DNA evidence also matched Miah to the crimes and dashcam footage helped
place some of the victims in the taxi. Miah, who had no previous convic- tions, is married with three children. Prosecutor Alan Blake said the rape victim recalled: “He kept repeating to her ‘in my country, we are very respect- ful of women’.” She went to bed and later reported the rape to hospital staff.
In her impact state- ment, the rape victim said: “That night I should have been safe in that vehicle. He should have taken me home safely but he took advantage of me in the worst possible way.”
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