JUST DESERTS
SEVEN YEARS’ JAIL FOR THUG WHO ROBBED KIND LANCS CABBIE WHO LET HIM USE HIS PHONE
A kind-hearted cabbie offered a man a reduced fare home, and let him use his phone, but Felix Connors, 26, repaid the favour by pulling a knife on the driver and robbing his evening's takings. LancsLive reports that Connors from Heysham, has been jailed for seven years after pleading guilty to robbery and possession of a bladed article at Preston Crown Court. Lord Justice Edis, sentencing, said: “You were clearly out of control.” The court heard that on June 18, 2021, Connors told the driver he did not have enough money to pay the full fare home. The driver agreed to
take him for a lesser fare. Outside his house, Connors asked to use the driver’s phone to call his brother, to let him in. The driver agreed, but Connors started using the phone to try to buy drugs. He then produced a knife and robbed the driver at knifepoint. As the driver started pulling away, Connors ran down the street and began kicking parked cars. The judge said: “This man was defenceless, doing you a favour
SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR STRIKING AN OXFORD DRIVER
An irate customer beat a late-arriving private hire driver over the head with a glass bottle. Oxford Magistrates’ Court heard how Malcolm Njururi, 24, ordered a Royal Cars car to pick him up in April 30 last year. When the driver arrived, there was no one waiting so he called the passenger and Njururi answered, telling the driver he was too late and he no longer wanted the car. A vehicle from another firm then arrived and Njururi went to speak to the second driver who directed him to the first taxi. A heated discussion began and the driver felt a crack and discovered he was bleeding. He was taken to hospital and treated for a 5cm wound to his head. In his police statement, the driver said: “I am no longer going to be a taxi driver because of this. I do not come to work to be assaulted when I am doing my job.” Njururi, from Oxford, pleaded guilty in August to causing actual bodily harm. Magistrates imposed six months’ imprisonment suspended for two years, 200 hours of unpaid work, £300 in compensation and £213 in costs.
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and your response was to produce a knife and steal his takings.” Connors was arrested and released but in December 2021 while under investigation, he was caught waving a knife around in the street and making threats. The court heard that a family bereavement had been a destabilising factor. Lord Justice Edis said: “It is quite clear from the pre-sentence report that you are dangerous”. He sentenced Connors to six years for robbery with a year to run consecutively for possession of a blade article in a public place.
DERBY TEEN RACIALLY ABUSED CABBIE WHO OFFERED FREE RIDE
A Derby teenager launched a tirade of racist abuse at a cabbie. Malakai Blackham called the driver to pick him up at 4.25am on 22 December 2021, to take him home. But when the cabbie arrived, Blackham said his phone and £1,000 worth of jewellery had been stolen, meaning he may not have the fare. Derby Crown Court was told that as it was the driver's last journey of the night and Blackham was upset, he agreed to take him home anyway. Upon arriving, Blackham, now 18, provided some of the fare and went into his home to find more money. But upon returning, Blackham launched into a barrage of abuse, screaming “f**k off, you P**i” and waving his fists. In a statement the driver said: “I should be able to come to work without being racially abused.” Blackham pleaded guilty to racially aggravated threatening behaviour and was given a community order, told to complete 90 hours of unpaid work, pay £200 compensation to the cabbie and is subject to a curfew (9pm to 5am)from Sep 6 to Jan 24, 2023.
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