Video on the Examiner's website
Funny there's no mention of the r-word here, but if you look at the video I suspect the perp is of, er, Afro-Carribean origin, so that might explain it
Abusive passenger trashed my taxi says furious driver who filmed ordealhttps://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/wes ... s-17798464Driver Muhammed Naeem says he is infuriated by the ordeal
Image: Huddersfield ExaminerA furious taxi driver says a man who refused to get out of his cab for hours then verbally abused him, threw a rock at him, vandalised the taxi and urinated inside.
Hackney Carriage driver Muhammed Naeem, 52, picked up the man at 6am today outside McDonald's in John William Street - but says the man would not tell him where he wanted to go and refused to get out of the cab.
Eventually Mr Naeem, from Bradley, took three passengers to Skelmanthorpe, who said the man could travel with them.
But he says when they left the man still refused to get out, pretended to be asleep on the back seat and then chased him and threw a rock at him before pulling the taxi door off and urinating in the cab.
Mr Naeem filmed most of the ordeal on his phone and footage shows the man telling the group going to Skelmanthorpe: 'I was going to get a hotel but this is cheaper."
In Skelmanthorpe he is heard to say to Mr Naeem: "You f***ing j*****i motherf***ers, f***ing b*****d, scumbag motherf***er."
He tells Mr Naeem he has lost 'loads of money tonight'.
Then he says: "Keep your noise down anyway, I am trying to get some f***ing sleep. What's the matter with you? Selfish b*****d."
Image: Huddersfield ExaminerAfter this Mr Naeem said the man tried to hit him so he ran off with the man giving chase, throwing a stone at him. He said the man went back to the taxi, urinated inside and pulled the door off.
After getting back inside the man is heard to say: "Taxi's fallen apart man. You need to get the f***ing AA out. It's not f***ing going well, is it? That dream of that business you are going to build in the UK? It's not going well, is it?"
Mr Naeem said the man eventually ran off towards Huddersfield in the direction of Shelley College.
A person living nearby who had seen what the man did helped Mr Naeem secure his door he said.
Mr Naeem said he called 999 three times but says he was told nobody would be able to attend. He said he was disappointed with the police's response and has asked them to call him back after 6pm.
He said: "I can't work - my taxi is broken. I am losing business and my insurance will go up if I have to make a claim. I can't ring anyone at the council because it is Sunday and they will say it's a police matter.
"I have had no sleep and I missed my prayer this morning - I never miss it.
"I couldn't throw him out of the taxi - what can I do? I can't fight with anybody because I will lose my taxi badge."
Image: Huddersfield ExaminerMr Naeem said he had suffered several previous attacks, including one where he was pulled from his vehicle and punched in 2015 and another in 2017 when a drunken and abusive passenger tried to smash through the security screen.
But he said he goes out of his way to help others, such as a time he found £1,000 in the back of his cab and drove to the owner's house to return it; a time he returned a lost phone to its owner and an occasion he took two young women home to Leeds and let them transfer the payment instead of paying cash.
He added: "I look after people and this is what happens to me."
West Yorkshire Police have been contacted for comment.
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