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Robbers 'cut off taxi driver's fingers and stabbed him over £5 fare'


Taxi driver Vladimir Qevani said his fingers became trapped in a door frame after he was lured to a house to collect a fare

Two of a taxi driver's fingers were chopped off in a door after he was lured to a house and robbed and stabbed in Clifton, a jury heard.

Vladmir Qevani drove his Skoda Octavia taxi to Cherhill Close, Clifton, to collect a £5 outstanding fare when he was attacked.

Five people went on trial yesterday accused of robbing him of cash and a mobile phone on December 11, 2013.

Mr Qevani, a self-employed driver for NG11 Cars, Clifton, was allegedly "set up" to be robbed.

He told jurors at Nottingham Crown Court he was dragged inside a house after he arrived.

He held on to the frame of a door – but it was shut on his fingers three or four times.

Abigail Joyce, prosecuting, asked Mr Qevani: "What happened to your fingers?"

Mr Qevani replied: "They got chopped off in the door."

The driver walked over and showed jurors his two shorter fingers on his left hand where the tips had gone.

He also described how he was held in a headlock inside the house and told to hand over his money.

His pockets were searched and he was stabbed in his left thigh.

Miss Joyce said Mr Qevani was set up to be robbed by defendants Kirsty Miller and Craig Grocock.

Co-accused Lance Reid, Cornelius Duggan and Leon Fuller were allegedly together in an Astra car before the robbery.

Miller, 25, of Cherhill Close; Grocock, 25, of Whitney Close, Top Valley; Reid, 36, of Elford Rise, Sneinton; Cornelius Duggan, 25, of Hartness Road, Clifton, and Fuller, 27, of Ladysmith Street, Sneinton, deny robbery.

"The prosecution say that Fuller drove Reid and Duggan to the robbery and waited in the car to drive them away," she Miss Joyce.

"Duggan and Reid went to Miller's address and laid in wait for the arrival of Mr Qevani.

"Once he arrived he was dragged into the house after Kirsty Miller lured him there on the pretence of paying the taxi fare."

Reid is further accused of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice with defendants Richard McGuire, 47, a taxi driver of Whitegate Vale, Clifton, and Shareen Morris, 25, of Wilkins Gardens, Clifton, between April 1 and June 10, last year.

All charges are denied

The trial continues


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Clifton taxi driver robbery trial: Four guilty


Four people are facing at least 28 years in total in jail after they were found guilty of robbing a taxi driver in Clifton.

Kirsty Miller, 25, of Cherhill Close; Craig Grocock, 25, of Rise Park; Lance Reid, 36, of Elford Rise, Sneinton; Cornelius Duggan, 25, of Hartness Road, Clifton, were all convicted of robbery at Nottingham Crown Court.

A fifth accused, Leon Fuller, 27, of Ladysmith Street, Sneinton, was found not guilty.

Judge Andrew Hamilton adjourned sentencing on Wednesday, February 4, until Tuesday, February 10, and remanded all four found guilty in custody.

Prosecutor Abigail Joyce told the judge the robbery, which involved a taxi driver losing the top of two of his fingers and a stab wound to his thigh, fell into category three on the sentencing guidelines.

“The starting point for that category is eight years in custody, with a range of seven to 12 years,” she Miss Joyce.

The driver, Vladmir Qevani, was stabbed with a weapon, there was more than one person involved, there was “clear planning” and the driver was a “vulnerable victim”, she added.

Jurors heard Mr Qevani drove his Skoda Octavia taxi to Cherhill Close, Clifton, to collect a £5 outstanding fare when he was attacked.

Mr Qevani, a self-employed driver for NG11 Cars, Clifton, was allegedly “set up” to be robbed on December 11, 2013.

He told jurors he was dragged inside a house after he arrived.

He held on to the frame of a door – but it was shut on his fingers three or four times.

The driver walked over and showed jurors his two shorter fingers on his left hand where the tips had gone.

He also described how he was held in a headlock inside the house and told to hand over his money.

His pockets were searched and he was stabbed in his left thigh.

Mr Qevani was set up to be robbed by defendants Kirsty Miller and Craig Grocock.

Co-accused Lance Reid and Cornelius Duggan were together in an Astra car before the robbery.

Reid was also found of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice with defendant Richard McGuire, 47, a taxi driver of Whitegate Vale, Clifton, between April 1 and June 10, last year. Shareen Morris, 25, of Wilkins Gardens, Clifton, was cleared unanimously.


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Clifton taxi driver robbery: 16 years for two involved

Two people involved in the robbery of a taxi driver in Clifton have been jailed for 16 years at Nottingham Crown Court.

Kirsty Miller, 25, of Cherhill Close, Clifton, who lured driver Vladmir Qevani to her home on the pretence of paying an outstanding £5 fare, received six years.

She was convicted of robbery with then boyfriend Craig Grocock, 25, of Bracadale Road, Rise Park, who was sentenced to ten years on Tuesday, February 10.

Judge Andrew Hamilton told Grocock: "I take the view that you were the ringleader and certainly you may have been encouraged by Reid. Your role was one of the principles."

He told Miller he accepted she did not know all the details and was not present in the hallway of her home when the violence was inflicted.

"You full well knew what was happening because you saw that they grabbed him and pulled him into the house. You took no part in the violence yourself."

He said the robbery was effectively a scam.

"You, Kirsty Miller, seized upon the opportunity that you would under pay the unfortunate taxi driver by £5, and he said he would come round and collect it the next day. This was after you had been out drinking all night.

"You knew there was a possibility of getting him to come back to the house where he would be robbed. You and your then partner were both penniless."

Co-accused Lance Reid, 36, of Elford Rise, Sneinton, and Cornelius Duggan, 25, of Hartness Road, Clifton, who laid in wait for Mr Qevani at Miller's home, were not brought to court to be sentenced, because prison transport was not provided. Reid's case was adjourned until April 15 and Duggan's to February 17.

Reid was also convicted of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, after the robbery, with defendant Richard McGuire, 47, a taxi driver, of Whitegate Vale, Clifton, between April 1 and June 10, last year.

McGuire was sentenced to three years after he, with Reid, tried to get Mr Qevani to change his evidence.

Mr Qevani, who worked for NG11 taxi company, in Clifton, lost the tops of two fingers and was stabbed during the robbery at night on December 11, 2013.

After speaking to Miller, Mr Qevani told the court she asked him to come her door.

She was on her doorstep when he arrived, so he got out of his taxi and walked toward her.

Somebody held him in a headlock and two others came and tried to push him towards her door.

The tips of two of his fingers were chopped off after a door was shut on his hand at the house.

He was held in a headlock and stabbed as his pockets were searched.

He told the court he returned to his car and his mobile phone had disappeared from his dashboard and his taxi receipts were all over.

"I wanted my phone to call an ambulance," he told the jury. "I thought, 'I'm going to have to drive myself to hospital' but by this time my leg had froze. I could hardly move it.

"I saw this guy walking and said, 'excuse me'. I said, 'I've been robbed and stabbed'. He said he was a police officer."

The policeman cut his trousers and tied a strip around his leg.

Then a woman, Mr Qevani believed to be Miller, appeared crying.

"Police told her to stay where she was and not to go anywhere," he told the court.

"After that I can't remember anything," said Mr Qevani. "I woke up in the QMC [Queen's Medical Centre]."

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George Carlin

Horrible story.

Nice sentences.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin