Thought this had already been posted, but it's a few days old now...
And talking of age, when I read about the charge and saw the driver's name, expected him to be a tad younger than he actually is...
Southwold taxi driver accused of assault of 80-year-old man
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24791063.so ... r-old-man/
A Southwold taxi driver assaulted an 80-year-old man who criticised him for parking near a junction, it has been alleged.
Nikolaos Boutelis had parked his taxi near a Premier Store at the junction of Covert Road and Mount Pleasant in Reydon when the pensioner allegedly knocked on his window and told him that he was causing a hazard and shouldn’t be parked there, Ipswich Crown Court was told.
He was allegedly met with a stream of abuse from Boutelis and told him that he was going to report him, said Simeon Wallis, prosecuting.
Boutelis had allegedly continued to be abusive and the pensioner had raised his hand to cover his mouth because he was shocked at the language he was using, said Mr Wallis.
Boutelis had then allegedly got out of his taxi and knocked the pensioner to the ground and continued the attack while he was on the ground.
“The prosecution say what he was out of all proportion to what started as a conversation through the driver’s window,” said Mr Wallis.
He said that as a result of the alleged incident the pensioner suffered bruising, a graze to his hand and back pain.
Boutelis, 61, of St Edmunds Road, Southwold, has denied an offence of assault causing actual bodily harm, which was committed on March 25 2022.
He later told police he’d been assaulted by the pensioner who had fallen to the ground himself.
He claimed the pensioner had told him to “get out of the country”.
The trial continues.
