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Four bailed in Telford taxi driver murder inquiry

Four people held on suspicion of murder following the death of a taxi driver whose car hit a tree have been bailed. The driver, in his 50s, is thought to have been involved in two altercations with occupants of another car before the crash in Telford, Shropshire.

Police say the first incident took place near a Tesco in Madeley and the second just afterwards by a school. The taxi crashed in Madeley Road at 22:30 BST on Monday. Two men and two women were held and are now on bail. A passenger in the taxi was injured and taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

The taxi driver was in a red Skoda Octavia while the other car involved was a silver Peugeot 307. Det Ch Insp Stephen Tonks, from West Mercia Police, asked anyone with any information about both cars travelling along Park Avenue, Park Street, Ironbridge Road and then Madeley Road, to contact police or Crimestoppers anonymously. The two arrested women are aged 37 and 18 and two men 31 and 18.

Graham Hoof, operations director at Go Carz where the taxi driver worked, said: "We can confirm that the incident in Madeley involved one of our drivers who sadly passed away. "We are assisting the police with their investigations and our thoughts are very much with the driver's family and the passenger who was injured."

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Manslaughter charges over Telford taxi crash death

Two men have been charged with manslaughter following the death of a taxi driver in a crash.

Ishfaq Hussain, 52, died when his taxi hit a tree on Ironbridge Road in Madeley, Telford, in August 2017. A passenger in the taxi was injured and taken to hospital.

Brandon Dowen, 19, from Telford and John Cox, 32, from Wolverhampton, were charged with manslaughter on Wednesday.

They are due to appear before Telford Magistrates on 26 February.

Two women, aged 18 and 38, were also arrested in August in connection with the crash but released with no further action against them.

Mr Hussain was a taxi driver at Go Carz and was driving a red Skoda Octavia when he crashed at about 22:30 BST.

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Two in court over death of Telford taxi driver

Brandon Dowen, 19, from Madeley, Telford, and John Cox, 32, from Wolverhampton, were arrested on suspicion of murder on August 8 in connection with the death of Ishfaq Hussain in a car crash the previous day. In January they were charged with manslaughter.

Ishfaq Hussain, 52, died when his car, a red Skoda Octavia, hit a tree in Ironbridge Road, Madeley.

The two defendants appeared at Telford Magistrates Court and were bailed to appear at Shrewsbury Crown Court on March 26.

The conditions of the bail were that the two should not contact each other or the prosecution witnesses, and that they should both reside at their current addresses.

GoCarz driver Mr Hussain suffered a cardiac arrest and was given CPR at the scene of the crash in Ironbridge Road, but could not be saved.

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