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33 MONTHS’ JAIL FOR WOMAN WHO THREATENED TO KILL STOKE CABBIE AS SHE LASHED OUT WITH KNIFE
Drug user Keeley Dwyer pulled out a knife and threatened to kill a taxi driver before making off without paying. The Stoke Sentinel reports that now the 20-year-old has been jailed for 33 months at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court. Prosecutor Aimee Parkes said a Lucky Seven taxi driver picked up the defendant on January 15. Miss Parkes said: “She asked to be taken to Campbell Road, Stoke where they picked up a man on the street. The defendant asked to be taken to the Holiday Inn at Trentham Lakes. where
the driver waited for 10 to 15 minutes. “They came out and got back in the taxi. The defendant paid £12 towards the fare which at that stage was £30. The man was taken to Campbell Road. “She asked him to take her to Stoke. He realised she could not pay the fare. She asked him to take her to Norton. He refused. “She asked him not to leave her on the street. She handed him her iPhone 11. He carried on so he could be paid. “As he turned into Norton Road he noticed she had a knife and was
30 YEARS’ JAIL FOR MAN WHO SHOT DEAD BRADFORD CABBIE AFTER ROAD RAGE
A double murderer who carried out two execution killings in Bradford and New York has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 31 years. According to YorkshireLive, crack cocaine dealer Ricardo Linton, 46, now faces being kept in prison until he is 77 after he gunned father-of-four Mohammed Basharat in the office of Little Horton Private Hire in Bradford in October 2001. In 1993, Jamaican-born Linton fled New York after he brutally shot a man in the head when he was only 17 and by 2001 he had entered this country using a false name and passport to continue his drug dealing activities. Almost 20 years ago Linton and Mr Basharat, 33, were involved in a road rage scuffle after their vehicles clipped wing mirrors on a Bradford street, but Linton left the scene chillingly warning his victim: “You don’t know who you are messing with. I will come back and get you.” The next day masked Linton walked calmly into the taxi office and without saying a word he shot Mr Basharat twice in the head. Linton then aimed
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his handgun at work colleague Jamshad Khan and he only cheated death because the handgun failed to fire. After the Bradford murder Linton fled back to Jamaica where he was eventually arrested in 2003 by police officers from the US and taken back to America to stand trial over the fatal shooting in New York. Linton was found guilty of that murder in 2005 and jailed for 25 years to life, but last September he was extradited from the US to stand trial here for the murder of Mr Basharat. Last month a jury at Bradford Crown Court returned unanimous guilty ver- dicts on charges of murder and attempted murder following a trial last- ing several weeks. Although Linton was sentenced to life in jail with a minimum term of 31 years and 312 days it is expected that he will first be returned to the US to continue serving his prison term there for the New York murder.
pointing it at him. It had a blade about 31/2
inches long. She
said, ‘Give me my phone or I will kill you’. He feared for his life so gave it back. “She was swearing and went crazy. She pushed forward with the knife. Fearing he would be stabbed he tried to grab her hand. He missed and felt blood on his hand. He grabbed out again as he feared she would kill him. “He bit her hand to try to get her to drop it. The defendant got out of the car leaving the door open and he drove off and called the police.” The court heard the knife was not recovered. In a victim statement the taxi driver said: “It is not the first time someone has pulled a knife out on me. It is common for passengers to have no money. This is the worst incident I have experienced as a taxi driver. It will take time for me to get my confidence back.” The incident happened while Dwyer was on bail for an incident on September 10 last year. She was stopped by police driving a Ford Fiesta after officers received intelligence there may be weapons in the car. Police searched her and found a four inch lock knife in her pocket. Dwyer, from Norton, pleaded guilty to threatening another with a knife, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, making off without payment and possession of a knife in public. Recorder Julian Taylor said: “These are very serious offences. You were caught red-handed with a knife you used in a slashing motion. He tried to stop you and you injured him on the hand. This has had a serious effect on him.” The judge made a restraining order which prevents the defendant contact- ing her victim for five years.
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