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Accrington bank boss assaulted taxi driver

AN Accrington bank manager assaulted a taxi driver during a row over a ride home after his work’s Christmas party. Blackburn magistrates heard Jason Shorrock, who was sitting behind the driver, grabbed his scarf and tightened it around his neck as he was driving. The TSB branch manager had earlier told the driver he would ‘break his nose’ and ‘break his car’.

Shorrock, 43, of Dill Hall Lane, Church, pleaded guilty to assaulting Talib Hussain. He was fined £155 with £105 costs and ordered to pay £50 compensation to his victim. Parveen Akhtar, prosecuting, said Mr Hussain had arrived at the Sparth House Hotel in Clayton-le-Moors to pick up a fare in the name of Joanne who was going to Rawtenstall.

Shorrock and his wife, Joanne, got into the back of the taxi and were told the fare would be £15. There was a dispute which the driver didn’t fully understand and Shorrock began kicking his seat and making threats. The driver headed to Accrington town centre looking for a police officer but said Shorrock took hold of his scarf and was trying to strangle him with it. “I was losing control of my car and I was scared,” said Mr Hussain.

He stopped the car in Union Street and managed to wriggle free from his scarf. At that point the female in the taxi was shouting, ‘leave him’.

Imran Hussain, defending, said the entire incident had arisen out of a ‘terrible misunderstanding’. “He and his wife had been to a work’s Christmas party and were returning to their home in Church which was one and a half miles away.”

Mr Hussain said the behaviour was totally out of character for Shorrock who had no previous convictions and was ashamed to be appearing in court. He said his client was a married man with three children who had started working for the bank as a cashier in 1991. “For the past four years he has been employed as a bank manager,” said Mr Hussain.

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IDFIMH

There is certainly no excuse for assaulting a taxi driver but if it is indeed only a 1.5 mile trip then surely £15 is a little excessive. The bank manager should have used proper routes to complain and not taken things into his own stupid drunk hands.

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

Very clever of (the Bank manager) to hire an Asian sol for his defence - I suppose it takes the racial card out of the way.

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I wonder if the bank manager lost his job?

As sure as night becomes day, if roles were reversed, the cab driver would.

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Another cracking headline Sussex. You seem to have your bankers mixed up. This chap was a branch manager. The bankers that lost the money were investment bankers in the City. They are as different as chalk and cheese. You can't tar them all with the same brush can you, that would be like saying because one taxi driver is a rapist, they all are.

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Grandad,

I beg to differ.

Most ordinary people with large debts are in the position due to them spending to much, and bank manager giving loans to people who can't pay it back.

Investment bankers aren't to blame for PPI and the mortgage endowments scams.

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IDFIMH

probably not although i think he might have to change location after all would you trust your bank manager if you knew he had been done for assault ?

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You can beg all you like, it doesn't make all bank managers the same.

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Grandad,

Would you trust a banker anyway?

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The accused was a bank branch manager, probably NOT responsible for international investment banking but its possible the FSA could remove his licence for doing his job after a conviction...

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Kin el, must move to Warrington!

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the 15.00 fare for the 1.5 mile journey may be because of the distance the driver had to travel to get to the pick up point, then take the fare a 1.5 mile journey, plus also the chaces are being after a christmas party it was probally on a night rate aswell, or do they have to pay the hotel concierge anything for pick ups at the hotel

Not sure the quoted 1.5 mile is correct, but can a hack charge more than a meter fare in his own LA and can he put the meter on to travel to a pickup? I think not

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You could well be right but that's one hell of night rate. Unfortunately there really isn't anything in the report to indicate whether or not it was actually a taxi or a ph but my understanding is that it is rare for taxis to be able to charge customers to go and get them but only to take them from A to B, unlike ph. Payments to a concierge

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

It says in the OP that the taxi was booked to Rawtenstall which is a lot further away hence the £15 quote but they actually went to just down the road to Church which I think I'm right in saying is Accrington so had they tried to pull a fast one by getting a taxi from further away because they couldn't get one locally ? or perhaps called the wrong cab firm by accident it does happen

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector