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Liverpool taxi cab drivers deny trapping ‘brick throwing boys’ in back of cab




A LIVERPOOL TAXI driver accused of bundling a boy into his cab and punching him told Liverpool Crown Court he was trying to make a citizen’s arrest.

Phillip Naylor, 30, told Liverpool Crown Court the boy threw a brick at his cab and nearly caused an accident.

Keith Sutton, defending Naylor, asked what happened on February 8 last year on Banks Lane, Kirkby.

He said: “I noticed three boys turning into the stiles entrance to Charlotte Pagsy (a local park).

“At that point I saw the last male doing an overarm throw. What I did then was swerved my cab. I closed my eyes and heard an almighty thud.

“The windscreen was cracked all over the place and I slammed on.”

Naylor, who lives nearby on Douglas Way, drove his cab on to Galstone Close and chased after the boys.

He said: “I went straight down the entranceway to cut them off.”

He said he saw the boys stop running and ran to catch up before grabbing the one he thought had thrown the brick by the collar and demanding to know where he lived.

Mr Naylor told the court: “I said ‘you just bricked my ****ing window are you going to pay for it?’

“I wanted to get them to their parents’ house. I asked them numerous times where they lived.”

He said he called his taxi company, Knowsley Black Cabs, for help and when a maroon hackney cab driven by co-accused George Sealey, 59, arrived, he pushed the boy inside. He said he intended to make a citizen’s arrest and take him to a police station.

Mr Sutton asked why he didn’t call the police straight away.

He replied: “Unless I detain the person the police don’t want to deal with it. It happened to me before.

“They just give you a crime reference number and away you go.”

He also strenuously denied hitting anybody.

But Phil Astbury, prosecuting, said: “You had your phone in your hand. You used it. If you wanted to call the police you could have.

“It’s not what taxis are for – to bundle kids into the back of – that’s what the police are for.

“Why don’t you tell the jury why you didn’t call the police?”

He replied: “I’m not sure. It was the heat of the moment.”

Mr Astbury said: “You never had any intention to call the police.”

He said: “Not at the time.”

Mr Astbury said: “Not at any time.

“Despite the fact you could have killed someone (when the car was hit).

“Despite the fact taxis being bricked was an ongoing problem and a meeting had been set up with the police.

“You were angry enough to abandon your cab with the cash float inside.

“Make your mind up did you want the police?”

He replied: “No.”

Mr Astbury said: “No you didn’t want the police. You phoned the taxi company for aid because you knew your colleagues would come out.”

Phillip Naylor and George Sealey, of Deva Close, Kirkby, both deny false imprisonment. Naylor also denies assault.

(Proceeding)

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Kirkby taxi driver denies helping to imprison boy



A TAXI driver accused of using his cab to imprison a teenage boy told a jury he was just responding to a colleague in distress.

George Sealey, 59, said that at 4.15pm on February 8 last year he got a “yellow one” over the dispatch radio – a code used by Kirkby cabbies to indicate a driver in trouble.

When Sealey reached Washington Drive, Kirkby, he recognised fellow taxi driver Phillip Naylor, 30, frogmarching a boy along the road.

Naylor believed the boy had thrown a brick, cracking his window, and had called in for help.

He pushed the 15-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, into Sealey’s cab, but the boy and his friends ran off.

Sealey, of Deva Close, and Naylor, of Douglas Way, both Kirkby, are accused of false imprisonment which they deny.

Naylor also denies assaulting the boy by punching him.

Sealey, who had been a taxi driver for eight years, did not touch the boys, talk to them or even leave his seat during the scuffle.

He told the court that it was not him who drove Naylor from the scene as the boy said, but another driver he knew as a “nodding acquaintance”.

(Proceeding)


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George Carlin

I do hope these two are acquitted it would be totally unjust if they go down simply for trying to tackle criminals

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Kirkby cabbies not guilty of imprisoning teens



A PAIR of hackney cab drivers were found not guilty of “imprisoning” two teens in the back of a taxi.

Dad-of-three Phillip Naylor, 30, had been accused of punching a 15-year-old boy in the face and bundling him into a hackney cab after he threw a brick at his car.

But a jury at Liverpool Crown Court took just over an hour to return unanimous not guilty verdicts to the charges of assault and false imprisonment.

One woman in the public gallery clapped before being quickly silenced by Judge Brian Lewis.

Mr Naylor, of Douglas Way, Kirkby, had told the court the case was “a joke” during the five-day hearing.

He maintained he was just trying to detain the boy who he said had cracked his windscreen and nearly caused him to crash his cab on Banks Lane, Kirkby on February 8 last year.

He described how police had previously refused to investigate similar incidents without an obvious suspect and said that was why he tried to grab the boy.

George Sealey, 59, of Deva Close, also Kirkby, who was accused of letting his cab be used to trap the teen, told the court he had only driven to the scene because he heard that a colleague was in distress.

The court heard Mr Sealey had since left the taxi business after eight years, to work for DHL and Jaguar.

Mr Naylor had his hackney licence revoked and has been unable to work as a cab driver since his arrest.

Both drivers declined to speak to the ECHO after the hearing but Tony Carr, who represented them at their Knowsley Council licensing hearing, said: “The most tragic thing about this whole case is two wholly innocent taxi drivers have been accused of crimes which were a total fabrication.

“The real crime, that has failed to have been investigated with the same gusto, is that of causing criminal damage to a moving vehicle with the potential to threaten life.

“It is this particular offence which causes taxi drivers across Merseyside most concern.

“It is reassuring that the justice system has arrived at a fair conclusion to a case which should not have reached crown court proceedings.

“The onus on incidents such as this should lay with the parents of youths who fail to offer discipline and guidance.”


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

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

A victory for common sense. That's a rarety.

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From the beginning I felt it would be very hard to get a jury to convict these chaps.

And thankfully I was right.

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IDFIMH

I thought they were going down for nothing, I do hope someone pays Autoglass for the screen, mind you that will be me and you because the type of person that does these things does them because they have nothing else better to do.

Anyway, here's how you should handle this according to UK law if it should happen to you.

1 - Ask the chap to stop running away

2 - Once he returns ask him to be a good fella and stand by the wall

3 - Ask toi use his phone to call the cops, after all why should you shoulder the cost of battery drain from your phone.

4 - While you are waiting for the cops, get the monopoly set out toi kill time, better still play Colditz, that way they will be there before the end of the game.

5 - When the cops arrive, ask for some wet wipes so the chap can get the brick dust off his hands as it has a drying effect and ages the skin.

6 - Make some sort of excuse for him, like sadly I went this way and if I hadn't the brick wouldn't have hit me.

7 - Say you only want the excess money, the insurance company can cop the rest, keep costs down for the underprivilidged.

8 - If he doesn't get arrested offer him a cut price ride home, better still offer your mum,wife and sister to be his for the day FOC.


Sad isn't it that it's got this far, you say when and I'll go into politics and sort it all out so folk can be safe, and so one doesn't get the unjust upper hand over another.

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

I heard a rumour that Unite the Union refused to represent these two drivers.

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

Shock horror !!!

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