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WITNEY MAN GIVEN COMMUNITY ORDER FOR VIOLENT ATTACK


A Witney man has received a community order after threat- ening a private hire driver and damaging his vehicle last year. Szabolcs Pap, 39, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on August 15 for a series of offences that occurred on October 22, 2024, in Littlemore. According to court records, Pap threatened PH driver Waqas Ahmed with a knife and caused damage to his Royal Cars taxi.


He was also charged with damaging a traffic bollard and using threatening behaviour towards another individual, Osaman Asif, during the same incident. The court record stated that Pap used “abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause that person to believe that immediate unlawful violence would be used against him by any person, or to provoke the


immediate use of unlawful violence by him whereby that person was likely to believe that such violence would be used, or it was likely that such violence would be provoked.” Despite the charges, Pap avoided a custodial sentence. He was instead given a 12-month community order and he has been ordered to complete 50 hours of unpaid work within that period.


THUG JAILED AFTER VICIOUS ATTACK ON TAXI DRIVER IN WEDNESBURY OVER CRASH PHOTO


A man has been sentenced to 34 months in prison after a violent assault on a taxi driver who simply tried to


take a photograph


following a minor collision. Kyle Henry, 32, punched Miah Muktar so hard he collapsed to the ground “like a sack


of


potatoes,” leaving him with what the court called “permanent and it seems irreversible injuries.” The attack occurred on August 8, 2023, in Wednesbury, after a van clipped Mr. Muktar’s taxi. When the van failed to stop, the taxi driver pulled in front of it to take a picture of its licence plate. Henry, a passenger in the van, “took exception” and “marched” up to Mr. Muktar. He then struck the victim in the face with both hands, using “significant force.” A witness at the scene told Wolverhampton Crown Court, “I genuinely believed he was going


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to pass away,” as Mr. Muktar lay on the ground “bubbling with blood.” The court heard how Henry showed “absolutely no concern for his welfare” and returned to the van after the assault. Mr. Muktar was rushed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham with a fractured skull, a broken nose, a swollen left eye and a fractured ear drum. He “cannot remember anything” from the attack and his wife has become his full-time carer. In a statement, his wife described the trauma, saying: “I remember the surgeon told me there was a chance he would not make it.” She added: “My whole family’s life has changed because of this.”


During the sentencing on Tuesday, August 5, District Judge Grego described the assault as “unprovoked violence,”


stating


Henry was “no stranger to the use of violence when you deem it relevant.” Henry, has 12 previous convictions for 17 offences, including three for common assault,


assault


occasioning actual bodily harm, affray,


breach sentence pleaded guilty


and robbery. to


of suspended He


inflicting


grievous bodily harm. His defence claimed the attack was “impulsive,” and that he “regrets his actions” and is “devastated” by


the victim’s


injuries. However, the judge dismissed this, saying it was not an instance of “self-defence that went too far.” Henry was also ordered to pay a £184 victim surcharge.


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