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Drunken yob beat up taxi driver then stole his cab


A MAN attacked a taxi driver and stole his takings before driving off in his cab during a night of booze-fuelled violence.

Kasam Hamid was angry his wife refused to meet him when he was out boozing with friends in Leeds city centre.

Leeds Crown Court heard Hamid, 22, of Welton Mount Hyde Park, told his terrified wife Shumaila Kousar he was catching a taxi home, adding: “I’m coming home in 15 minutes to kill you.”

Taxi driver Mohammed Ghani picked Hamid up on Boar Lane and he asked to Hyde Park during the incident on February 12 this year.

Prosector Louise Reevell said: “[Hamid] became aggressive to the driver and said he would smash his face in and burn his car. Hamid grabbed Mr Ghani around the throat and punched him in the face.”

Mrs Reevell said taxi driver Mr Ghani jumped out of his cab and Hamid, who stole the cabbie’s £90 takings, got in the drivers seat and headed for home.

The court heard during earlier phone calls home Hamid had spoken to his father who was afraid of what his son might do. Hamid’s father had alerted police and officers were waiting when Hamid arrived at the house.

Mrs Revell said Hamid went in to the house and said: “I don’t care, I will burn the house down. I will kill them all.”

Hamid admitted making threats to kill, theft, assault, driving whilst disqualified, taking a taxi without the owner’s consent, making threats to the taxi driver and failing to provide police with a breath specimen.

The court heard Hamid had been convicted of drink driving and banned for a second time just weeks before the incident on February 12.

Jailing Hamid for two-and-a-half-years, Recorder Simon Jackson QC said: “The taxi driver was frightened. He tried to defuse the situation by saying ‘you don’t pay me.”

Recorder Jackson added: “He was so terrified that he stopped the taxi and got out.”

Hamid was banned from driving for three years. He has previous convictions for robbery, drug dealing and assaulting former partners.

Graham Parkin, in mitigation, said Hamid had a drink problem, adding: “Those same family members who are victims...are finding it difficult to come to terms with how this defendant has changed.”

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I can only imagine the life Shumaila is going to have with this abusive bully boy.

This one sounds like a right nutter not sure the sentence will do much sounds like he needs to go to a high security mental unit


an example to all of us of what booze can do !

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If that was thrown my way Ed, I don't hit cabbies, nor women and I've never stolen a car in my life, booze like drugs merely heightens your personality, so the nasty get nastier and the happy get merrier, and in this case I think it's nothing to do with booze it's the fact he's basically an orrible little jumped up turd whose gonna put that poor wife of his through a life of hell because he thinks it's his right to do so, I wonder how many flights in and out of Gatwick they had while they were courting.