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Not much here on the taxi angle, but the driver potentially dodged a bullet here by terminating the trip

But police got the worst of this headbanger's wrath


Thug threatened to ‘eat faces’ of police during cocaine-fuelled rampage in Dundee


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Cocaine-using Chad Netherington twice abused police in Dundee and Perth.

A violent thug who headbutted and spat at police during two cocaine-fuelled rampages has been jailed.

Chad Netherington was hauled into custody after being caught breaching a court order to stay away from his partner.

Netherington exploded at police officers in Dundee and Perth, unleashing a torrent of abuse, including threatening to eat their faces.

During one incident, Netherington flashed his genitals at officers.

“These are serious offences and reprehensible conduct towards police officers,” Sheriff Paul Brown told the repeat offender.

“There’s no alternative in my view to a substantial custodial sentence.”

Booted taxi

Dundee Sheriff Court heard Netherington, 33, was with his partner in Dundee at around 8pm on November 26 2022, despite being subject to bail conditions to stay away from her.

The pair planned on taking a taxi to Perth but only got as far as Perth Road when Netherington left the car while shouting and swearing, having been warned about his conduct by the driver.

The accused walked off in a “rage” before running towards the taxi and kicking the front passenger window.

The driver drove 30 yards, with the woman still in the car, to get away from Netherington before calling the police.

When speaking to officers, the driver said the pair were “as bad as each other”.

Netherington had a cut to his left cheek and a cut behind his right ear.

Prosecutor Andrew Harding said: “Checks were carried out on the accused, which showed he had the live bail condition in place.

“The accused immediately attempted to run away and the attending officers restrained him to the floor.

“The accused struggled violently and locked his hands together in front of his chest in an effort to avoid being placed in handcuffs.

“He said ‘I will f***ing bite you’ and began to kick out towards the officers, making efforts to spit, which did not make contact.”

A spit hood was applied and Netherington pretended to be unconscious in a police van after repeatedly banging his head.

Carnage in cell

He continued pretending to be “unresponsive” when taken to police headquarters on West Bell Street, before “springing to life” and kicking the police van door open.

A nurse had assessed him as fit to be in custody and Netherington was described as causing “serious disruption”.

He was carried to his cell and it took six officers to restrain him, before being left on constant observation.

Some of his remarks included: “I’m gonna kill you. I’m gonna find you and kill you. I hope your mum f***ing dies of AIDS.”

During this time, Netherington tried to spit through the cell hatch, urinated over the cell floor, forced his mattress into the toilet and repeatedly spat at the glass screen.

‘Eat faces’ threat

Officers were again terrorised by Netherington on June 15 2023 on Tweedsmuir Road in Perth where his partner answered the door following reports of a disturbance at about 9.25am.

Netherington – wearing only boxer shorts – was handcuffed due to his aggressive demeanour before “donkey kicking” an officer and threatening to kill others.

Mr Harding said Netherington shouted “I’m going to eat your faces” when he was taken to West Bell Street.

This episode saw Netherington flash an officer, threaten to defecate, try to headbutt an officer before leaving one officer bloodied after headbutting him.

He also deliberately spat at another officer’s arm.

Netherington, currently a prisoner at HMP Perth, pled guilty to the offences on both occasions.

Solicitor Paul Ralph said his client had recently suffered a heart scare due to his abuse of cocaine, which was “out of control” at the time of the offences.

Netherington was sentenced to 25 months in prison followed by a 12-month supervised release order.

Maybe this story will have a happy ending for society after all.

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Eerie parallels between this and the case above - when I first saw it, thought it was maybe the same case and this was just the sentencing, but some of the details looked a bit different - turns out it's a totally different incident

And, again, not much on the taxi angle. But it's a headbanger with a beard, a Perth/Dundee run, dispute between headbanger and girlfriend, headbanger exits taxi, and driver stuck in the middle of it all...


Sheriff blasts Dundee boyfriend who hurled partner’s phone from taxi on A90 in Perthshire

Sheriff Lindsay Foulis called John Lawson "thoroughly unpleasant".


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A sheriff has blasted a “thoroughly unpleasant” boyfriend who snatched his weeping partner’s mobile phone out of her hand and tossed it from a moving taxi on the A90.

John Lawson was then forced out of the cab and abandoned at the side of the dual carriageway between Perth and Dundee.

The 42-year-old appeared at Perth Sheriff Court and admitted a domestically-aggravated charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner during the taxi journey through Perthshire.

Lawson, of Broughty Ferry Road, Dundee, was spared jail and ordered to carry out 250 hours of unpaid work.

He must also stay away from his ex-partner for two years as part of a non-harassment order, despite the court being told the woman was against such an order and had asked for the charge to be dropped.

‘Thoroughly unpleasant individual’

Sheriff Lindsay Foulis told Lawson: “The impression given by both the offence and the content of the social work report is undoubtedly that, as far as females are concerned, you are a thoroughly unpleasant individual.

“You consider that you are the person in control and that if you say jump, a woman’s response to should be how high?

“There is a huge temptation as far as I am concerned to take your liberty away.”

The sheriff added: “You are 42 now and I suspect that this attitude is already well ingrained in you.

“No matter what I say today won’t make a blind bit of difference.

“You will probably leave here and mutter something derogatory under your breath about me.

“Hey ho, that goes with the territory.”

He told Lawson he was weighing up sending him to jail.

“I am somewhat reluctantly not going to take that course with you,” he said.

Girlfriend in tears

Fiscal depute Duncan McKenzie said that on May 31, a taxi driver at Perth railway station noticed Lawson’s girlfriend standing outside, speaking on her phone and crying.

“The taxi driver was asked by Mr Lawson for a lift to Dundee.

“He agreed and Mr Lawson sat in the front, while his partner got in the back seat.

“The driver could see she was still upset and on her phone.”

Lawson asked the woman who she was speaking to.

“My dad,” she replied, and terminated the call.

“Mr Lawson then launched himself between the two front seats,” said Mr McKenzie.

“He seized hold of the complainer’s mobile phone.

“He went through her phone and then threw it out of the taxi window.

“At this point, they were travelling on the A90 near to the Glendoick Garden Centre.”

The taxi driver pulled into the next layby and Lawson left the car.

“He then drove off, leaving Mr Lawson at the side of the road,” the fiscal depute said.

“The complainer was taken to her home.”

Mr McKenzie said the complainer was “not in support” of a non-harassment order and had contacted his office to ask for the case to be dropped.

Solicitor Paul Ralph, defending, said: “I understand that the phone was recovered and it was intact, for what it’s worth.”

He added: “This a relationship that is capable of possibly being repaired.”


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Men like this **** drive me mad.

Their coercive toxic behaviour is a very common feature that comes before the courts, however, more often than not the courts take a very dim view.

But the judge is correct, men like this **** never change, they will always be ****s.

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Wouldn't have even bothered reading this, which is not taxi-related, but recognised the face in the photo from the same photo at the top of this thread

But a quick skim through suggests the taxi driver at the top of this thread had a lucky escape.

Two years, eh?


Perth attacker jailed for ‘danger to life’ assault that left victim ‘unrecognisable’

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Chad Netherington repeatedly stomped on a friend's head, leaving him with a constant ringing in his ears and afraid to step out of his own home.



A violent attacker who kicked and stamped on his victim’s head until he was “unrecognisable” has been jailed for two years.

Chad Netherington assaulted family friend Steven Gallacher “to the danger of his life” in Perth, leaving him with a constant ringing in his ears and afraid to step out of his own home.

The 34-year-old denied the attack and tried to persuade a jury he had actually rescued Mr Gallacher from two mystery masked men who burst into his flat.

Jurors took just under two hours to find Netherington guilty of assaulting his friend, 57, to his severe injury and permanent impairment.

Perth Sheriff Court heard how the pair had been drinking together when Netherington suddenly changed “as if a switch had been flicked”.

Unprovoked

Sheriff Jennifer Bain KC told Netherington: “According to you, Mr Gallacher was a family friend, someone you had known your whole life.

“Yet he describes you changing as if a switch had been flicked, going from having a laugh to punching him to the ground and stamping and kicking his head while he was on the ground.

“According to the evidence, this was an unprovoked attack.”

She said: “Mr Gallacher invited you to his home as a family friend and you attacked him there, where he should have been safe.

“You should have known that stamping someone to the head like that had the potential to endanger life.

“The damage you caused left him in such a mess he was described as ‘unrecognisable’.”

The sheriff added: “Your actions had a huge impact on Mr Gallacher, in physical terms, in the form of hearing impairment and pain in his jaw and in terms of his mental state, he now fears for his own safety and is confined largely to his own home.

“There is little that can be said in mitigation.

“There is only one disposal available to me – a sentence of custody.”

‘It seemed like forever’

The trial heard how both men had been drinking at the Welcome Inn until closing time on April 17 this year.

They then went back to Mr Gallacher’s home in the city’s Letham area.

In his evidence, Mr Gallacher said they sat in the living room drinking beer.

“It was okay, we were having a laugh.

“Then it was like a light switch. I remember everything was alright, then ‘bang’.

“He kicked the s**t out of me.”

Mr Gallacher recalled how he was knocked to the floor, where he held his arms over his head to try to protect himself from Netherington’s blows.

Asked by prosecutor Ronnie Hay how long the attack lasted, Mr Gallacher said: “It seemed like forever.”

He added there was no trigger point and no argument beforehand – “It took me by surprise.”

Mr Gallacher told the trial he managed to crawl away from his attacker.

He said he now has a permanent “high-pitched ringing noise” in his left ear, his jaw still aches and he has no confidence to go outside.

“I have mental scars,” Mr Gallacher told the jury. “It’s hard to talk about but I probably never go out of the door.”

Earlobe detached

Jurors heard a 999 call made by Mr Gallacher’s neighbour, who found him soaked in blood.

“He’s one hell of a mess,” the neighbour is heard saying to the operator.

When asked about the attacker, the neighbour replies: “He’s still in the house.”

Mr Gallacher was taken to Ninewells in the early hours of the following day.

He had suffered multiple wounds to the left side of the top of his head, which were glued closed.

His earlobe had separated from his head and had to be stitched back in place.

An MRI scan showed a build-up of fluid in three ventricles of his brain.

Mr Gallacher appeared visibly upset when a photo of his injuries was shown in court.

‘Two other guys did it’

Netherington had lodged a special defence of incrimination, claiming Mr Gallacher was not attacked by him but by two other men who he did not know.

Solicitor David Duncan, defending, put this to the victim, asking him if he heard a noise in the hallway and remembered jumping up and saying: “Who the f*** is that?” before two men with facemasks burst into the flat.

Mr Gallacher said that did not happen.

“Did Mr Netherington get in between the two guys and you?” asked Mr Duncan.

“What two guys?” responded Mr Gallacher. “I know he done it.”

Netherington, a prisoner at HMP Perth with previous convictions, shook his head as the jury returned its verdict.

“Cheers,” he said to them before he was led away. “Thank you for being so nice.”

Chad though what a [edited by admin] name

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