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Bit different to the normal scenario in that they put the driver in the back before stealing the cab rather than punting him out. And no word of injuries or damage to car, so could be worse

Taxi driver robbed in his own cab after Leamington to Leek Wootton journey

https://www.leamingtoncourier.co.uk/new ... -1-8717636

A taxi driver was robbed in his own cab after taking a group of passengers from Leamington to Leek Wootton in the early hours of this morning (Sunday).

At around 4am, a group of people took a taxi from Warwick Street in Leamington.

After the driver dropped one person off at Leek Wootton the offenders forced the taxi driver out his driving seat and put him the back of the taxi.

One of the offenders then started to drive the taxi towards Kenilworth.

The offenders then stole all the taxi driver’s takings and the keys to the taxi, while also attempting to take his mobile phone.

They stopped the taxi at Farmer Ward Road in Kenilworth where they made off on foot.

Anyone with any information about this incident should call Warwickshire Police on 101, quoting incident 71 of November 25.

Of course, there was no theft here in that it's defined as requiring an intention to "permanently deprive" the owner of their property.

Hence the offence of TWOCing - taking without owner's consent - to deal with the likes of joyriders or those who take a car simply to get a free lift home, as effectively happened here, although the driver was more or less kidnapped.

But shouldn't be too difficult for the police to find these scrotes - Leamington Spa to a small village for one drop, then on to Kenilworth a short distance away, population around 20,000.

don't be deceived it is quite a populous area around there loads of big villages and towns all running into one another

If they catch them and can prove who was driving then they can go for driving without insurance but I very much doubt this will be a priority

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Maybe, but while they won't get off at their front door, they won't get off a million miles away either, so a group out for a night in Leamington Spa, one dropped in a named village of a few hundred people, then on to a named street in a smallish-town. So suspect more to go on than people on a night out in Birmingham, then one drop in Dudley, then others in Wolverhampton, say.