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Mum speaks out about her angry Facebook post accusing taxi driver of 'locking' daughter in car

A mum who posted a rant on Facebook accusing a Hull taxi driver of locking her daughter in his car has spoken out. Clare Pallant took to Facebook claiming a Hull hackney carriage driver refused to let her daughter and her friend of out of his cab.

Following the post, which has been shared more than 500 times, the taxi driver, Yakup Kahramanog, 42, spoke to the Mail and denied locking the girls in, stating how the Facebook post has made him too scared to work. He says the girls did not have enough money to pay for the £12 fare, and so he was forced to take them to Clough Road Police Station after they refused to pay him.

However, the mother who is behind the Facebook post, said she believes a different story because she was on the phone to her daughter while she was in the taxi. Ms Pallant said: "Katie rang me when they were at the top of our street and said, 'the taxi driver won't let us out'. "I said, 'what do you mean he won't let you out?' and she said, 'he doesn't think we’ve got enough money' and I said, 'well have you got enough?' and she was like, 'yeah, we have'.

I demanded to speak to him and he said, 'the girls won't pay and they won't give me their phone' and I said to him, 'of course they won't give you their phone'. "He said, 'I’m going to Clough Road' and I said, 'It's OK because I'm ringing the police anyway'. I said to him, 'you’ve got no reason to keep them in there'. But he wouldn't let them out. This is the part I don’t get.

"The girls were in Hessle, he could have just dropped them off. I could have popped out and given her the money. "The girls had asked him to stop when he got to £10.50. All it was, was one of the girls had said they didn’t have the full amount. They offered to go to the bank. "All he had to do was come down to my address or ring the police there and then.

"I stayed on the phone with my daughter. They got to Clough Road and she said, 'Mum it's all dead, there's no police about'. I said to her, 'whatever you do, don't get out of that taxi, you wait until the police arrive. "I did not want them getting out. You hear of all sorts, of girls being dropped off somewhere and then being attacked. I am not saying he would have attacked them. "I did not want him to drive off, I wanted the police to sort it."

Ms Pallant said she drove to Clough Road, and the police were already there with the girls who were wrapped in silver blankets to keep warm after the driver had opened the door on arrival. "The police officer asked them if they had any money and Katie said yes and gave it to them," said Ms Pallant. "He’s really frightened my daughter and friend."

Mr Kahramanog told the Mail he became suspicious of the girls when they took their shoes off, however Ms Pallant said the girls already had their shoes in their hands when they got into the taxi outside of the Piper club.

Following Mr Kahramanog having his say, a row has erupted on Facebook, with the girls being accused of making the story up. Ms Pallant has also been verbally attacked for posting the original rant.

She said: "I'm not saying he was kidnapping them. There was nothing nasty about him in post, I just said what happened. "If I’d not been on the phone with the girls I maybe would have thought, 'OK, maybe they sat in the taxi and thought lets do a runner,' but I heard her telling him that she had the money. "They said they were not sure if they had enough and they offered to go to the bank."

Asked what she would like to come of the situation, Ms Pallant said: "Honestly, I don’t know what will happen now. "What I would like to think will happen is that they speak to drivers to make sure they take a name and address, a home number, something so that it will prevent anything like this happening again. "I don’t want anyone else’s daughter to be in that situation ever again."

Mr Kahramanog told the Mail: "There are thousands of people on Facebook who have seen the post and I feel like I am being judged by them all because it has got everywhere. "I don't want to go to work at night now, I am even thinking of leaving the taxi job and selling my car. I just don't know what could happen to me. "When they asked to be dropped off earlier I said it was fine and stopped the car. They then tried to open the door but couldn't. It wasn't locked, you just have to push the button in.

"I said 'that's £12 please', they both asked each other if they could pay and then one of the girls pulled out £1 and asked if that was okay. "I told them if they weren't going to pay I would take them to the police station."

Humberside Police confirmed they were aware of the incident. A police spokesman said: "We are aware of allegations in relation to a disputed taxi fare in Hull. Advice has been given to both parties. "This is a civil matter and not a policing issue."

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What a mess.

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Following the post, which has been shared more than 500 times, the taxi driver, Yakup Kahramanog, 42, spoke to the Mail and denied locking the girls in, stating how the Facebook post has made him too scared to work. He says the girls did not have enough money to pay for the £12 fare, and so he was forced to take them to Clough Road Police Station after they refused to pay him.

mum angry that her daughter didn't get away with fare evasion ?

often in these cases the "angry Mum/dad" only have half the story and believe their Daughter/son to be a complete angel and not to be trying to rip the driver off

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So they told the mother they had the money, then said they didn't have full amount, then they weren't even sure how much they had.



If only she was running the show, everything would be so easy. Maybe she's a licensing councillor

The *girls* were wandering around outside without shoes, needed a silver blanket to keep warm after being outdoors for a few minutes, then had to phone mum when they got into an argument with a taxi driver. Sure they should have been out at that time at all?



Sounds like police just treated it as a 'he said-she said' sort of dispute that they wanted nothing to do with. I mean, the girls were so cold they needed silver blankets, but weren't even allowed in the station or in a police vehicle?