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PostPosted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:53 pm 
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Man who racially abused taxi driver faces jail term

A MAN who racially abused a Polish taxi-driver and smashed up his car has been warned he is almost certainly going to jail.

Adam Bowman, aged 23 and of How Street, the Barbican, admitted racially-aggravated criminal damage when he appeared at Plymouth Crown Court.

He also pleaded guilty to stealing two three-litre bottles of cider worth £8.38 from McColl's on the same date, June 15, and to failing to surrender to police bail on July 10.

Prosecutor David Gittins said the victim lived in the same street and was walking to his parked vehicle when Bowman, who was drinking, swore at him, racially abused him and threatened to kill foreigners.

He then punched the man's windscreen and jumped on the bonnet and roof, causing £1,100 of damage.

Jo Martin, for Bowman, said he suffered badly from epilepsy, which had an impact on his memory and behaviour "particularly when mixed with alcohol".

He will be sentenced on September 14 for these three offences, plus two assaults causing actual bodily harm, one of them racially-aggravated, to which he previously pleaded guilty.

Judge Paul Darlow ordered a Probation Service report and granted Bowman bail on conditions including staying in contact with his solicitor, adding: "You can afford the booze, you can afford the credit on your phone."

He warned: "It's extremely likely, almost inevitable, that the next time you attend this court you will go into custody."

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:40 pm 
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Nobody seems to know who the driver is - which is unusual.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 5:19 am 
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Doom wrote:
The story may be true but was the fare correct? was the route correct, it's alright standing in judge of it but if you know it's £8 and you get asked for £15 who yer gonna become....Cabbuster's,


There is a chance our man is honest and just met a 100% asshole but I doubt it myself, been in the pub tonight and friends tells me off the £6 ride that cost £9 last week,

Lemme tell you something about Poland, pre 1939 they were western, post 1945 they were commie, that effect has changed these once great ppl, I see it in the Balkans drivers I know, Stalin did more damage to these ppl than Hitler ever could, race card? do yer history first before you reach for your pocket, and the reason was we were exhausted and Churchill couldn't say no to Stalin, Eastern Europe sadly suffered 50+ years at the hands of a menace far worse than the original menace,

From the USSR to the Berlin wall all those behind it got it large and sharp from the red state.

What are you on about? The chap had not even been in the car according to the report. He had stolen 6 litres of cider and jumped on the taxi and racially abused the driver. He was not a passenger. #-o

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