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PETERBOROUGH DRIVER JAILED FOR THREATENING TO KILL WOMAN
A taxi driver from Peterborough who harassed a woman and wrote letters threatening to kill her, has been jailed. Anwar Akhtar, 40, first met the victim while he was work- ing as a taxi driver in November 2018. After that first encounter Akhtar then approached her twice while she was out shopping and made inappro- priate comments towards her.
love letters, quickly became threaten- ing and abusive. One letter stated: “I’m gonna smash your face in” and another quoted her car
registration
Following that the victim started to receive letters at her work place, which she reported to the police. Officers spoke to
Akhtar and contact with the woman ceased for a few months. But he started to write more letters which, although initially
HIGH WYCOMBE PHV DRIVER CAUGHT WITH 7KG OF COCAINE
A taxi driver caught on a North York- shire motorway with seven kilo- grams of cocaine in his car has been jailed. Police stopped self- employed private hire driver Raj Seechurn’s Mer- cedes between jun- ctions 48 and 49 on the A1M on May 14. Prosecutor Bashir Ahmed said the 39- year-old told police he was not on duty as a private hire driver but was on his way to Newcas- tle to collect some tyres. Leeds Crown Court heard that police searched the car and found seven blocks of cocaine - each weighing around a kilo - in a
panel compartment in the car’s boot. Mr Bashir said the cocaine had a street value of bet- ween £175,000 and £689,000. Two mobile phones were found in the car, including a mil- itary-grade ‘burner’ phone. Seechurn,
from
High Wycombe, admitted possess- ing cocaine with intent to supply. David Burgess, mit- igating, said See- churn was under considerable finan- cial pressure foll- owing the Covid-19 lockdown. “It removed his means of livelihood, being a taxi driver, because no one was moving around. “It wasn’t so much
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him looking for extra income as looking for some means of support- ing his family as best he could. “He was well aware of what he was doing, but he was exploited to the extent that his finan- cially precarious position was known to people who wanted to use him. Jailing Seechurn for six-and-a-half-years, the Judge told him: “I accept your liveli- hood is likely to have suffered as a result of the Covid- 19 pandemic. The vast majority of people have man- aged to deal with it in different ways and not by turning to serious offend- ing.”
plate. The woman was so distressed that she had to change jobs, move house and replace her car.
Akhtar was finally arrested in January this year and at Peterborough Crown Court admitted charges of harass- ment, stalking and making threats to kill. On August 12 he was sentenced to three years in prison and an indef- inite restraining
order was imposed. DC Jenny Blunt said: “Akhtar was clearly intent on contacting the vic- tim despite her never responding to his messages. He caused her extreme distress and I hope this shows how seriously we take incidents of harass- ment.”
BLACKPOOL CABBIE INVESTIGATED FOR TAKING PENSIONER’S PURSE
An investigation is underway after a Blackpool pension- er found her purse missing after being helped out of a taxi by the driver. Alma Jeeves, was shopping in Bis- pham, Blackpool when she hailed a taxi at the rank in town to go home. She claims that she arrived at her house and was a little sur- prised when the taxi driver asked her to get out on the road side, and that he would get her handbag for her. The road was also busy, with fast- moving traffic. According to Lanc- sLive, Alma says she noticed the man zip up her handbag, and was confused, until she got in her house to discover her purse open with the £190
from her pension missing. Her son Gary urged her to call the police, and her neighbour caught the man red-hand- ed on CCTV, rifling through her hand- bag. Alma said: “I don’t want it to happen to anybody else, because it really shakes you up. When I opened my purse it was stand- ing upright, not lying flat and it was open and empty. “He had taken all
my money. I was so mithered and in a right state. When I sat down I couldn’t do anything, I was so shocked.” Her daughter post- ed about the theft online, which led to the man who owned the taxi get- ting in touch, and reporting the driv- er to the police himself. In a statement, Lan- cashire Constab- ulary said: “An inves- tigation is underway and enquiries are ongoing.”
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