A Met Police constable who got into a drunken row with a minicab driver over a £24 fare has been sacked. Nicola Elston, 30, was told her conviction for making off without paying the fare amounted to gross misconduct when she appeared before a disciplinary hearing. The panel heard that Elston, who has served with …
Category Archive: Crime & the Trade
Aug 19
Taxi ‘legal loophole’ could put children at risk in Rotherham
Ministers have been urged to ‘act without delay’ to prevent a ‘damaging’ legal loophole from putting young people in Rotherham at risk in taxis. Since the child sexual exploitation scandal in Rotherham was revealed in 2014, all taxi drivers in the town now have strict rules to adhere to, including having CCTV installed in their …
Aug 16
Delta private-hire driver pleads not guilty to raping male passenger
Khaldon Mohammed will stand trial in the new year A Delta private hire driver has pleaded not guilty to raping a male passenger. Khaldon Mohammed is alleged to have attacked the customer in his taxi in Aigburth late last year. Mohammed, of Gwendoline Street in Toxteth , is alleged to have picked up the victim …
Aug 15
Bristol taxi driver who couldn’t pay for sex hit prostitute with a frying pan, court told
Tonia Noto said she knew Ayman Yousif as a client and he propositioned her for sex as she worked in Fishponds Road A prostitute told a jury that a punter who didn’t have money to pay her for services bludgeoned her with a frying pan. Tonia Noto said she knew Ayman Yousif as a client …
Aug 10
Renfrew taxi driver caught with £300,000 of cocaine on M74 motorway
A RENFREW taxi driver who was caught ferrying high purity cocaine worth more than £300,000 on the streets was jailed two years and eight months today. Thomas Haggerty was stopped by police near Lockerbie, in Dumfriesshire, as he drove the consignment of Class A drugs north. Haggerty, 30, of Lang Avenue, Renfrew, was found to …
Aug 10
Uber minicab driver shows no remorse after he is jailed for 27 years for “execution” of Shawlands shopkeeper Asad Shah
A KILLER showed no remorse after he was jailed for life for the “execution” of popular Shawlands shopkeeper Asad Shah . Tanveer Ahmed, 32, was told at Glasgow’s High Court on Tuesday that he will spend a minimum of 27 years in prison for the murder of the 40-year-old on March 24. The killing, which …
Aug 09
Uber minicab driver who murdered Shawlands shopkeeper Asad Shah to be sentenced today
A Uber minicab driver who murdered a shopkeeper for claiming he was a prophet will be sentenced today. Tanveer Ahmed, 32, travelled from Yorkshire to Glasgow to confront Asad Shah at his store before pulling out a knife and stabbing the 40-year-old. Ahmed claimed to have been offended by clips Mr Shah had posted online …
Aug 06
Gang who flooded city with heroin and cocaine via TAXI are jailed for 68 years
The six-man gang’s leaders Dhiren Lad, 34, and Mohammed Taymure Khan, 33, have now been sentenced to 12 years and 13 years 8 months behind bars respectively The group, from Bolton, also dealt in large amounts cannabis and amphetamine before they were snared by police. The Manchester Evening News reports that leaders Dhiren Lad, 34, …
Aug 01
Drug dealer on the run after shooting hides out as Uber driver
A drug dealer on the run from a shooting spent six weeks undercover as a UBER driver. Yusuf Meah, 27, disappeared in May last year after a gun was fired in the stairwell of his flat at Ashton Old Road, Openshaw . Investigating police turned up at the property after he fled, and found cash …
Aug 01
JAILED: Mechanic beat up Wolverhampton taxi driver who refused to take friend home
A ‘highly skilled’ motor sport mechanic has been jailed for launching a savage attack on a taxi driver when he refused to take his ‘very drunk’ colleague home. Furious Gregory Senior hurled a glass at the taxi as it started to leave without the customer, who had collapsed after being sick during a work Christmas …