Taxi Driver Online

I know the a-word is used a lot in articles like this for legal reasons, but laying it on a bit thick here. Apart from the headline, the word is used in each of the first five paragraphs, and twice in one paragraph


Taxi driver allegedly robbed in Derby

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/d ... by-5805009

Two people have been arrested following the incident


Image: Derbyshire Police/Derby Telegraph

Police have released an image of a man they want to speak to as part of an investigation into an alleged robbery.

Police say the incident, which allegedly took place at around 11.30pm on July 14, saw a taxi driver pick up a fare in Derby.

Officers say three men got into the back of the taxi and allegedly asked the driver to take them to Meadow Lane, in Alvaston.

It is claimed that after parking up in Meadow Lane, one of the men allegedly produced a knife and allegedly threatened him, taking the keys from the ignition.

It is alleged the men then took the taxi and left the driver in Meadow Lane. The vehicle was later found abandoned in Swinburne Street, Rose Hill.

Two men were arrested nearby on suspicion of robbery, and they have since been questioned and released under investigation.

Now Derbyshire police says officers in the case want to speak to the man pictured in case he has information which can help with their enquiries.

Anyone who knows this person is asked to call Derbyshire police on 101, quoting reference 21*392654.

People can also call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

I think the journo needs locking up for a week for over use of the word Allegedly

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Wondered if it could be Derbs Police at fault, but although they use the a-word three times, they don't lay it on quite as thickly as the newspaper.

But I'm wondering if it's just a journo having a bit of a laugh


Taxi driver allegedly robbed in Alvaston

https://www.derbyshire.police.uk/news/d ... -alvaston/

We are releasing an image of a man we want to speak to as part of an investigation into an alleged robbery.



At around 11.30pm on Wednesday 14 July, a taxi driver picked up a fare from outside Mr Booze Express, in Siddles Road, Derby.

Three men got into the back of the taxi. The driver has told officers the men asked him to drive to Meadow Lane in Alvaston.

He parked up in Meadow Lane and one of the men allegedly produced a knife and threatened him, taking the keys from the ignition.

The men took the taxi and left the driver in Meadow Lane. The car was later found abandoned in Swinburne Street.

Two men were arrested nearby on suspicion of robbery, questioned and released under investigation while inquiries continue.

We would like to speak to the man pictured in case he has information which could help with our inquiries.

If you can help us identify the man pictured, contact us via the below methods quoting reference 21*392654;

• Facebook – send us a private message to /DerbyshireConstabulary
• Twitter – direct message our contact centre on @DerPolContact
• Website – complete the online contact form derbyshire.police.uk/Contact-Us.
• Phone – call us on 101.

You can also call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Or he has bet his mate he can use that word as many times as he did.

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Robber lured taxi driver to Derby park and threatened to stab him

A taxi driver was lured to a Derby park and told he would be stabbed if he didn’t hand over his money. Derby Crown Court heard how the terrified victim had to take weeks off work from a job he had enjoyed for almost two decades as a result of what Kassim Hussain and Harris Hickman Tahir subjected him to in Alvaston.

After Hussain, 24, took the cash and keys from the cabbie he and his 19-year-old co-defendant then fled in the car. But it was found parked up around two hours later and the two robbers were caught walking towards it.

Jailing Hussain for 18 months and handing Tahir a suspended sentence, Judge Shaun Smith KC said: “This is a serious offence where a taxi driver was out doing something he enjoyed and which he was confident to do. You, Hussain, the lead in this enterprise, told him you had got a knife and told him to get out of the cab and when he did that you drove off in it.

“You have not had the happiest of relationships with your family, I am told. Your parents have shunned you because of your involvement in crime but I am told when you are released they are prepared to accept you back into the fold.

"You, Tahir, have never been in trouble before this but you got involved with Mr Hussain which was a big mistake because when he decided he was going to steal some money from a taxi driver you hung around.”

Abigail Joyce, prosecuting, said the incident started at around 11.35pm on July 13, 2021, when the taxi picked up a fare in the city containing Hussain, Tahir and a third man who was never charged. She said he was asked to first drive to Sunny Hill and then on to Alvaston Park.

The prosecutor said: “As the car went down Meadow Lane and into the park under an arch, Hussain suddenly said to the driver ‘give me the leys or I will stab you with a knife’. All three men got out of the cab and Hussain approached the car and removed the keys from the ignition telling the taxi driver to get out of the car or he would be stabbed.

“Hussain then said ‘hand over all of the money’ and the driver handed him £30. They then got in the car and drove it off leaving the taxi driver there. His mobile phones and money were in the cab.”

Miss Joyce said police spotted the cab parked in Swinburne Street at around 1.45am on July 14 and two men who matched the description the driver gave of the men who robbed him came out of a nearby property. She said that it was Hussain and Tahir and a search of the older defendant’s room revealed the keys and the driver’s mobile phones.

Miss Joyce read out a victim impact statement made by the driver in which he said he’d done the job happily for the past 18 years but had to take a number of weeks off following the robbery due to the fear he felt.

Both men pleaded guilty to robbery and Hussain has previous convictions for drug dealing, which saw him jailed for 30 months in November 2018 when he was caught selling to addicts in Arboretum Park, and an unconnected robbery when he was a youth.

Ragveer Chand, his barrister, said: “He has remorse. He clearly accepts his wrongdoing.”

Tahir, of Rykneld Road, Littleover, was sent to youth detention for nine months, suspended for a year, with 100 hours of unpaid work. Steve Gosnell, mitigating, said his client had no previous convictions and had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.

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