Taxi driver attacked for asking for fare in Huddersfield town centre
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A TAXI driver was beaten unconscious after asking for a passenger’s fare up-front.
Rashid Ahmed, 46, pulled over on Cross Church Street in Huddersfield town centre to pick up a pedestrian who had flagged him down at about 4.30am on Sunday.
The man got into his car and demanded to be taken to Titanic Mills in Linthwaite.
When the cabbie asked for his fare before he set off, the man refused.
Mr Ahmed said: “He told me he had no money and said someone would pay when I got there. I told him I wasn’t leaving.
“After about two minutes I stepped out of the car and opened one of the passenger doors to ask the man to get out.
“He refused. I was standing there in the road asking him to get out.”
Eventually the passenger stepped out of the car but punched Mr Ahmed twice in the face, knocking him to the ground.
He then set upon his victim and beat him unconscious.
“I can’t remember anything after that,” Mr Ahmed said.
The father-of-one, from Marsh, was taken to Huddersfield Royal Infirmary to be treated for minor injuries to his head and face.
Makhan Singh, of Kirklees Hackney Carriage Association, said: “I’m shocked and appalled because of the severity of this beating. He took a real pounding.
“It comes back to the same old thing – we need cameras in the taxis urgently.”
Last month Kirklees Council’s cabinet approved £28,000 for 100 in-car cameras to combat theft, abuse and assault against drivers.
Police have arrested a man over Sunday’s incident. He is currently on bail.
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