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I'm slightly miffed as to why anybody needs a bat if you're passenger don't want to pay. You just knee in the nuts and then when they are preoccupied empty their pocket

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Spoken like a true scouser

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

It's those drivers they've corrupted me

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Yeah......I quite believe that too

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Cabbie facing prison for baseball bat attack


A TAXI driver who twice beat up customers with a baseball bat faces jail.
Amran Khan, aged 31, of Rushton Road, Cobridge, was yesterday found guilty of assaulting Phillip Booth occasioning him actual bodily harm on February 23 last year and causing grievous bodily harm to Adrian Dubiel with intent on June 15.

Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard Mr Booth got in Khan's taxi in Newcastle at 2.15am on February 23 and agreed a £20 fare to Gillow Heath, Biddulph.

When the taxi arrived at the house, Khan asked for more money. Mr Booth refused and Khan hit him several times with a baseball bat. Mr Booth was bruised but not seriously injured and noted the taxi's registration number.

On June 15, Khan, who was driving for Magnum taxis, picked up Mr Dubiel in Newcastle. The customer asked to be taken to Madeley for £10.


Prosecutor Paul Spratt said: "Khan said, 'I will show you a ride for a tenner,' and drove off out of Newcastle but in the opposite direction to Madeley."

The car stopped in a side road off the Brampton, Newcastle, and Mr Dubiel got out.

Khan followed him and hit him twice, once to the back of his head and once to the back.

Mr Dubiel was bleeding heavily but managed to note the taxi's registration number and the name of the firm.

He later discovered he had a depressed fracture of the skull and was in hospital for six days.

Recorder Martin Wasik adjourned the case for a pre-sentence report. He gave Khan bail but told the married father-of-three to prepare himself for a custodial sentence.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

He'll be able to play in the prison baseball team

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Magnum taxis

Was that 5 hits or 6, do you feel lucky punk
Go ahead make my day

he he

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

'Taxi driver fractured my skull'

A TAXI passenger has told how he was left with a fractured skull after being beaten by a baseball bat-wielding cabbie.

Adrian Dubiel was hit twice with the bat in a Newcastle side-street just minutes after being picked up from a night out.

Doctors later diagnosed the 28-year-old – who spent six days in hospital – with a depressed fracture of the skull.

Today, private hire driver Amran Khan is starting a three-and-a-half year prison sentence after being convicted of attacking Mr Dubiel and hitting another customer in similar circumstances months earlier.

Mr Dubiel told The Sentinel how he flagged down Khan's taxi to go home on June 15, after the rest of his friends went for a curry.

He said: "I jumped in and said 'Madeley for a tenner mate?' He said 'I will show you a ride for a tenner'. Then he sped off to The Brampton.

I said 'You're going the wrong way', and he stopped and told me to get out.

"I was a bit bemused and just wanted to go home. I was going to walk back to town to get another taxi when he came up behind me and clubbed me on the back of the head with a baseball bat, and again on my back.

"I didn't realise what had happened until I turned round and saw him going back to the car with the bat. I was in shock – there had been no argument, it was completely unprovoked."

Mr Dubiel, who now lives at Westbury Park, went to the police station and later had nine stitches in his head. His fractured skull was diagnosed three days later.

Father-of-three Khan, of Rushton Road, Cobridge, was convicted last month of assaulting Philip Booth, from Biddulph, on February 23 last year and causing grievous bodily harm to Mr Dubiel with intent on June 15.

The court heard Mr Booth – who had agreed to pay £20 to get him to Biddulph – was struck several times with a baseball bat after Khan demanded more money.

But Ian Metcalfe, mitigating, told Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court that 31-year-old Khan still expresses his innocence.

Recorder Martin Wasik yesterday jailed Khan for three years for attacking Mr Dubiel and six months to run consecutively for assaulting Mr Booth.
He told Khan: "The public are entitled to expect they will be safe when they get in a taxi late at night and offer to pay the fare home.

"In the pre-sentence report you say both matters were a case of mistaken identity and it was not you.

"On the evidence which was presented at trial I have no doubt the convictions were correct."

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Errm mr Recorder it was a PHV illegally plying for hire.....not a taxi.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin