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thug gets dealt with by court

A taxi driver was punched on the head and robbed of £50 when he dropped a Hamilton thug off at his Eddlewood home.

Dylan Stokes, who appeared from custody at Hamilton Sheriff Court last Friday, admitted a charge of assaulting and robbing Iain Robson outside his Forest Avenue home on November 24 last year.

Twenty-one-year-old Stokes had originally been accused of pressing a sharp object against Mr Robson’s throat, but his guilty plea to an amended charge was accepted by the Crown.

Fiscal depute Callum Forsyth told Hamilton Sheriff Court that 34-year-old Mr Robson had received a call to go to an address in East Kilbride. Once there he picked up Stokes and a female and took them to an address in Rutherglen. The female got out and the accused remained in the car.

During the journey from Rutherglen to Hamilton the accused told Mr Robson to stop and go to another address, which he said was his grandmother’s. When they reached the address Stokes, who had been sitting in the back seat, got out the car and sat in the front passenger seat.

He told Mr Robson to take him to his Forest Avenue address in Hamilton.

When he arrived outside the address Mr Robson was distracted. Mr Forsyth said as the taxi driver turned to face the accused, Stokes punched him once to the left side of his jaw “with significant force” and said: ‘Give me your money before I do something I don’t want to.’

An alarmed Mr Robson handed £50 over to the accused and Stokes got out of the car.

The taxi driver then drove a short distance along the road, stopped, and called 999. Officers were sent to Forest Avenue and spoke to Mr Robson.

When officers entered Stokes’s home he was sitting on a couch with other members of his family.

He was detained early on November 25 and when cautioned and charged at a police office replied: ‘Didnae dae it’.

Mr Robson attended accident and emergency with jaw pain. Following an assessment he was told to take paracetamol and discharged. He had no other injuries.

Stokes’ solicitor Jason Stark told Sheriff Vincent Smith that his client was “realistic about the outcome” of the matter. Sheriff Smith deferred sentence until March 17 for a criminal justice social work report. He refused Stokes bail and remanded him in custody meantime.

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

It's not the assault that he is being kept in for, it's the robbery.

Which is strange but it's the law.

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IDFIMH