"Furious" man robs minicab driver after a row with his girlfriendA FURIOUS man robbed a minicab driver who took him on an unsuccessful trip to talk to his former girlfriend.
Lee Kelly was so angry when ex-partner Melissa Conway then gave a statement to police that he sent her abusive text messages and spray painted the word “rat” on her front door.
At Bolton Crown Court he was jailed for 22 months after pleading guilty to robbery and two counts of witness intimidation.
The court heard how, on March 13, minicab driver Mahmood Ahmed received a call to pick up a passenger from Plodder Lane, Farnworth at 7.45pm.
Kelly, aged 27, of Sandpiper Close, Farnworth, got into the back of the vehicle and asked to be taken to Tudor Avenue, the home of former partner Melissa Conway.
When he got there Ms Conway refused to let him in.
“This appeared to have aggravated the defendant,” said Fiona Wise, prosecuting.
She added that Mr Ahmed then drove Kelly to Sandpiper Close, with the passenger repeatedly spitting in the back of his car. But Kelly was in such a temper that the driver did not dare ask him to stop the behaviour.
Kelly then made Mr Ahmed stop in a back alley and told him: “You know what you have to say to me now.”
‘Mr Ahmed said “sorry” in fear but for no reason,’ said Miss Wise.
He then forced the terrified driver to hand over a cash bag, containing £15 and walked off.
A week later Miss Conway phoned Kelly’s mother to tell her that she had given a statement to police and Kelly began sending her threatening texts, even after he was arrested and bailed on condition he did not contact her.
Then, at 3am on April 21, she looked out of her bedroom window and saw Kelly outside her house with a canister in his hand. When he had gone she went downstairs and discovered the word “rat” sprayed in black paint on her front door.
Robert Elias, defending, described the robbery as “an impulsive act of chagrin because his girlfriend wouldn’t have him in the house”.
He added that the trained accountant, who has a previous criminal record, is an intelligent man who had fallen into bad company.
Judge Timothy Stead told Kelly that even before the robbery his behaviour had been “poor” and that the minicab driver “must have been very frightened and unnerved”.
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