Cab driver menaced with meat cleaver
A BURTON taxi driver was threatened with a meat cleaver after being lured to the home of a disgruntled customer, a court heard.
Daniel Archer threatened to chop cabbie Perviez Akram up if his demands were not met.
The cabbie’s radio controller took the matter very seriously and informed the police, who were on the scene within minutes.
Archer was still in the taxi and the cleaver was on a seat.
Archer, 20, of Shakespeare Road, Horninglow, who admitted charges of possessing an offensive weapon and affray, was sent to youth custody for eight months.
Judge Mark Eades told him: “Taxi drivers provide a social service — they’re the people who come out late at night and in the early hours to get people to their destination.
“Where taxi drivers are threatened by members of the public, they put in jeopardy that valuable service.
“When in drink, you lured a taxi driver to the address where you were, having planned to confront him with this meat cleaver, to make threats you knew would frighten and intimidate him.” Nick Burn, prosecuting, said Archer had been involved in a dispute with a taxi driver on August 25 last year.
After he got home, he armed himself with a meat cleaver and phoned the same firm to order a cab — hoping the driver he had been imvolved in the fracas with would arrive at the property.
When the taxi arrived, he realised straight away it was not the same driver — but nevertheless got in and produced the weapon, making threats to the driver and the operator.
“He said he would chop Mr Akram up if the original driver was not brought to him within five minutes,” Mr Burn said Darron Whitehead, defending, said his client had earlier been assaulted by a colleage of Mr Amram.
Mr Whitehead said: “He is a hotheaded young man, in drink, who felt he had been wronged and wanted to confront the man who had assaulted him.”
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