JUST DESERTS
SHEFFIELD MAN WHO PULLED KNIFE ON CABBIE AND ATTACKED INMATE JAILED FOR 12 YEARS
Sheffield man, Callum Woodburn, 24, has been jailed after he robbed a taxi driver at knife point, assaulted a South Yorkshire Police officer following his arrest and assaulted an inmate while on remand. On 3 January 2022, Woodburn got a taxi on Harborough Avenue in Sheffield. The cabbie drove him around several locations before returning to Harborough Avenue.
When close by, Woodburn told the driver to stop and as he did, he pulled a knife out and threat- ened him, saying ‘do you want to go back and see your kids?’. Woodburn then grabbed the driver’s takings and fled the scene.
Police attended and arrested him. While in custody, Woodburn headbutted a police officer. Woodburn was remanded to HMP Doncaster and while there, he assaulted an inmate with a bladed article, Sheffield Crown Court heard, causing deep lacerations to the victim’s neck, arm, and knee. Woodburn was sentenced to a combined sentence of 12 years.
ROBBER WHO LURED CABBIE TO DERBY PARK AND THREATENED TO STAB HIM JAILED FOR 30 MONTHS
A taxi driver was lured to a Derby park and told he would be stabbed if he didn’t hand over his money. Derby Crown Court heard how the terrified victim had to take weeks off work from a job he had enjoyed for almost two decades as a result of what Kassim Hussain and Harris Hickman Tahir subjected him to in Alvaston. After Hussain, 24, took the cash and keys
from the cabbie at
around 11.35pm on July 13, 2021, he and his 19- year-old co-defendant
then fled in the car leaving the taxi driver there. His mobile phones and money were in the cab which was found parked up around two hours later and the two robbers were caught walking towards it.
FINES AND COMPENSATION FOR ASSAULTING LISBURN CABBIE
A man from Kilkenny has been ordered by Lisburn Magistrates to pay fines and compensation after he admitted assaulting a taxi driver, damaging his vehicle, and making off without paying after being asked to pay a soiling charge for another passenger being sick in the car. Shane Leahy, 22, appeared before Lisburn Magistrates Court on
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August 10, 2023, for the offences committed on April 28, 2023 at 1am.
The Judge imposed a fine of £100 on each of the three charges. She ordered Leahy to pay £100 in com- pensation for common assault, £105 for the criminal damage and making off without paying charges and an offender’s levy of £15, bringing the total to £520.
A search of Hussain’s room revealed the keys and the driver’s mobile phones.
Judge Shaun Smith KC said: “This is a serious offence where a taxi driver was out doing something he enjoyed and which he was confident to do. “You, Hussain, the lead in this enterprise, told him you had got a knife and told him to get out of the cab and when he did that, you drove off in it. “You, Tahir, have never been in trouble before this but you got involved with Mr Hussain which was a big mistake, because when he decided he was going to steal some money from a taxi driver you hung around.” Both men pleaded guilty
to
robbery and Hussain has previous convictions for drug dealing, which saw him jailed for 30 months in November 2018. Tahir, of Littleover, was sent to youth detention for nine months, suspended for a year, with 100 hours of unpaid work.
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