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Sheffield minicab ‘sex attack’ terror

A SHEFFIELD minicab driver tried to ply two terrified female victims with drugs then drove them to deserted locations and sexually assaulted them, a court heard. Zahoor Mahmood, aged 40, picked the girls up in his minicab in two separate incidents, then offered them crack cocaine and attacked them. Fiona Swain, prosecuting at Sheffield Crown Court, said: “He had a sexual motive in mind.” Jurors heard Mahmood, who worked for City Taxis private hire firm, picked the first woman up outside Club Xes, Carlisle Street, Attercliffe, on June 19 last year, at about 3.40am. She had drunk two glasses of wine and 10 half pints of cider by the time she got into Mahmood’s cab.

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Rogue taxi drivers linked to ‘drugs and gun crime’

07 05, 12 Fit & Proper

A SENIOR police officer has vowed to crackdown on rogue taxi drivers who are linked to gun and drug crime across the region. Chief Superintendent Tony Doherty, the head of the Force’s Matrix unit, says a minority of unlicensed taxi drivers are knowingly involved in drugs, guns and other criminality in Merseyside. They are also stealing trade from law-abiding cabbies, who he issued an appeal to for information to help identify rogue drivers. Over the bank holiday weekend, the Matrix unit, is running an operation targeting taxis used for criminality.

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Driver safety boosted as cabs are fitted with CCTV

07 05, 12 CCTV

SAFETY FEATURE: Balal Shah with the CCTV camerab that will be fitted in the cars Around 40 cabs have been fitted with CCTV as part of a huge safety push for taxi and private hire vehicle drivers. This week Balal Shah of A1 Cars in Mill Street, Bedford, handed out the cameras to drivers working late shifts as protection is stepped up following the death of cabbie Mehar Dhariwal. Nintety cameras were donated to drivers around the borough by PoliceWitness.com – a free public service that liaises directly with the police – after Mr Dhariwal was killed in January. At last week’s meeting of Bedfordshire on Sunday’s Cabbie and Passenger Safety (CaPS) campaign, Bedford Borough Council’s head of registration and records, Keith Simmons, admitted he wouldn’t drive a cab without CCTV in it. Mr Shah, who says the introductions of the cameras are to protect both drivers and passengers, said: “We gave the cameras as a priority to those who work the late shift as it those who are more at risk

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Two taxi drivers violently attacked and robbed in Grimsby

07 05, 12 CCTV

Two taxi drivers have been injured in robberies which police say are linked. Both of the drivers – a 55-year-old woman and a 65-year-old man suffered slash and stab injuries in the violent assaults in Grimsby in the early hours of yesterday. Today, Detective Inspector Kevin Foster, of Humberside Police, who is leading the investigation, confirmed that officers were linking the two attacks, and four men had been arrested

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Cardiff “Taxi” boss on terrorism charges

06 05, 12 Posts Contributions

A taxi driver whose firm has contracts with several schools appeared in court yesterday charged following a counter-terrorism investigation into a network suspected of smuggling a banned stimulant drug from Britain to America. Married father-of-six Daud Ali, 40, of Wakehurst Place, St Mellons, Cardiff, was also charged with possession of a fake Norwegian passport. He was held – along with co-defendants Adrian Wall, 49, and Liiban Nursharif, 30 – on Tuesday after officers swooped on homes in Cardiff, London and Coventry. The men were arrested under the Terrorism Act as part of an investigation into the illegal exportation of khat to the US and Canada where it is a controlled substance

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Worker was employee owing to mutuality of obligation

05 05, 12 Posts Contributions

Mutuality of Obligation is what convinced a judge to rule that a self-employed lap dancer was technically an employee and therefore within her rights to sue for unfair dismissal, an employment tribunal ruling shows. Nadine Quashie , a former dancer at Stringfellows, was said by the tribunal to have satisfied the minimum requirements for a contract of employment to exist, with an element of control, personal service and, crucially, MOO. Pointing to sufficient mutuality between the parties every night Ms Quashie worked at the club, tribunal Judge McMullen noted that she was required to turn up personally whenever she was rostered to work, and performed under the direction of management.

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Crown won’t appeal Private-Hire Car sex attacks sentence

05 05, 12 Posts Contributions

PROSECUTORS will not appeal the non-custodial sentence given to a private hire car driver who sexually assaulted two teenage girls, it was revealed today. The Crown Office decision comes after Asif Bashir launched his own appeal to overturn his conviction for carrying out the attacks in the back of his cab. The mother of one victim today said that she was “very disappointed” by the decision, adding that her daughter had lost faith in the justice system to such an extent that she now regretted reporting her ordeal.

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