Teenager slashed cabbie’s throat
Sep 3 2010
A teenager who slashed a cab driver’s throat with a cider can while attempting to rob him, was given a four-year youth custody order yesterday.
Jamie Lee Morgan, 18, of Treboeth, Swansea, admitted attempted robbery and wounding at the city’s crown court.
John Hipkin, prosecuting, said on March 31 this year Morgan was in the back of a cab being driven by 52-year-old Lynn Johns.
Morgan, who had taken a mixture of methadone, spirits, cider and strong lager, suddenly demanded the cab driver’s takings.
The 18-year-old, who was holding a crushed cider tin, placed his hand around the driver’s throat and Mr Johns instinctively accelerated in a bid to escape.
He managed to break free from Morgan, who was left behind on the side of the road, but the driver immediately noticed two gashes in his neck.
He needed more than 20 stitches at Swansea’s Morriston Hospital and Mr Hipkin said “entirely fortuitously” the wounds were not life-threatening.
Ian Wright, for Morgan, said the defendant had not intended to cause the injuries and the cider tin had not been deliberately used as a weapon.
Judge Paul Thomas QC told Morgan: “Taxi drivers are vulnerable when providing a service to members of the public like you and they must be protected.”
Mr Johns now cannot do night duties. He said his wages had been cut by half as a result of his inability to do night work.
Source; http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales ... -27190390/
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