A woman was sexually assaulted after sharing a taxi home with a man she had met at the pub earlier in the evening. Officers at Herts Police are investigating the serious sexual assault and appealing for information and witnesses.
The offence happened after the victim - a woman aged in her 40s – had left the Rose and Crown pub in the Old Town between 2am and 3am on Saturday, May 20. She had met the offender earlier that evening in the pub before sharing a taxi home with him. After she got out of the taxi to go home the offender followed her and sexually assaulted her before making off.
Woman sexually assaulted after taxi ride home in Hemel Hempstead Herts Police is investigating the serious sexual assault Herts Police is investigating the serious sexual assault James Averill Email A woman was sexually assaulted after sharing a taxi home with a man she had met at the pub earlier in the evening.
Officers at Herts Police are investigating the serious sexual assault and appealing for information and witnesses. The offence happened after the victim - a woman aged in her 40s – had left the Rose and Crown pub in the Old Town between 2am and 3am on Saturday, May 20.
She had met the offender earlier that evening in the pub before sharing a taxi home with him. After she got out of the taxi to go home the offender followed her and sexually assaulted her before making off.
He is described as an Asian man, who was wearing jeans and a top with a blazer-type jacket.
Detective Inspector Jason Keane from the Sexual Offences Investigation Team (SOIT), said: “We know that earlier that evening the victim had been speaking to the offender while inside the Rose and Crown pub. “They then left the pub between 2am and 3am and got a taxi, along with another man, from outside the White Hart pub in High Street, Old Town.
“I am appealing for anyone who was in the Rose and Crown on Friday night (May 19) and believes they saw the offender or knows who he is to get in touch with police.
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EAST DEVON
A masked attacker has been jailed for stabbing a brave taxi driver who fought him off as he tried to snatch his takings.
Peter Hall targeted cabbie David Bowditch as he returned to his taxi after buying chips from a seafront cafe in Seaton, East Devon.
He demanded that he hand over all his cash but Mr Bowditch refused and pushed Hall away before the two men grappled with one another.
Hall stabbed him with a wooden-handled knife and left him with a three centimetre deep wound under his arm which narrowly missed vital organs.
The robber was wearing a scarf which covered his face and a hat pulled down over his face to try to hide his identity from the victim and CCTV which covered the area.
Hall was desperate for money to buy drugs and had been hanging around a nearby cashpoint before he saw Mr Bowditch pull up at the chip shop.
Hall, aged 40, of Hawkwell Caravan Site, Axminster, admitted robbery and having a knife and was jailed for five years by Judge Geoffrey Mercer, QC, at Exeter Crown Court.
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STOCKHOLM
A man suspected of driving a van that rammed into a taxi in central Stockholm has been arrested.
Police said the taxi driver was injured, and that the incident was being investigated as attempted murder.
There was “nothing to indicate that this is a terrorist incident,” spokesman Kjell Lindgren said.
Police said they found “nothing dangerous” in the van, which was abandoned in a southern Stockholm street a few hundred yards away from where it rammed the taxi.
The van belonged to Tjuvgods.se, a courier company founded to help former convicts and recovering drug addicts back into the labour market. A company spokesman, Curre Cederstrom, said the van was discovered missing on Tuesday morning.
“We had not even reported it stolen when we heard about this,” the Aftonbladet newspaper quoted Mr Cederstrom as saying.
Police did not say where they arrested the suspect, but earlier said they had searched the southern part of Stockholm for the driver who ran away from the scene.
Eyewitness Per Sturesson told Aftonbladet he first thought “the driver jumped out to see what had happened” after the crash, but “he sped up and continued to drive.”
“It felt like he just wanted to get out of the truck in panic,” he said.
Swedish media say several vehicles were hit in the incident and barriers closing a street had been hit. Police declined to comment on those reports.
On April 7, the driver of a stolen truck killed five pedestrians and injured 14 in central Stockholm. Lawyers for the suspect, Rakhmat Akilov, say he has admitted driving the truck 1,100 metres down a main pedestrian shopping street. That case is not expected to come to trial until next year.
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WEST DUMBARTON (Jockland)
AN ALEXANDRIA taxi driver has been labelled a “threat to public safety,” by Scotland’s top police officer.
Chief Constable Phil Gormley has written a letter to West Dunbartonshire Council’s Licensing Committee pleading that the man in question has his taxi driver’s licence suspended.
As a result members of the licensing committee will meet today in Garshake Road to discuss the matter behind closed doors and no press access will be made available.
However, in a report to go before members of the licensing committee tomorrow, it states: “The committee are asked to consider the terms of this report, the terms of the letter from the Chief Constable and any evidence presented at the hearing and thereafter determine whether the licence should be suspended and, if so, the duration of the suspension and date of commencement thereof.”
The report also states part of the background, saying: “On May 17, 2017, a letter was received from the Chief Constable of Police Scotland requesting the suspension of the Taxi Driver’s/Private Hire Car Driver’s Licence on the grounds that the carrying on of the activity to which the licence relates is likely to cause a threat to public safety.”
The taxi driver, who The Reporter has not named, submitted an application for the renewal of a Taxi/Private Hire Car Driver’s Licence in October 2016 and an objection was received from the Chief Constable back then. As a result a hearing took place on December 7 where it was decided that the matter be continued to the meeting of the Licensing Committee due to be held on April 19.
At that meeting of the licensing committee, it was agreed the application be granted and that any subsequent conviction in the “pending case” against the taxi driver be referred to the committee for consideration.
The report goes on: “As the case has now been determined, the matter has been brought back before the committee having received the request from the Chief Constable to suspend the Taxi Driver’s/Private Hire Car Driver’s Licence.”
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Aberdeen taxi drivers have branded plans to make every cab in the city wheelchair accessible “utter madness”.
Drivers currently operating wheelchair accessible vehicles have also claimed they would make more money driving a saloon taxi because the public actively avoid the disability friendly vehicles.
One driver who uses a wheelchair accessible taxi and wished to remain anonymous, said: “I’ve been in the job for 16 years, for a year I had a saloon and in that time I had more work than ever.
“I can’t take my mother in my wheelchair accessible taxi because she had a knee replacement, the taxi is too high and she can’t lift her leg to get in.
“That shows that the proposal for a 100% fleet won’t work and if they go for that it’s utter madness.”
Ken Watson, who operates a saloon taxi echoed these sentiments.
He said: “A lot of people walk past the wheelchair accessible vehicles and come to a saloon.
“A lot of customers say to me that they prefer a saloon car.
“And a lot of elderly people can’t get into the higher vehicles because they are too high.”
Although Marc Anderson, who drives a wheelchair accessible taxi disagrees.
He said: “I don’t think if I had a saloon I would get more trade.
“The wheelchair accessible vehicles are easiest for everyone to get in and out of.
“Whether you are disabled, able bodied, drunk or sober you are able to get in and out of this vehicle easily.
“Saloon car drivers try to claim that people prefer the saloons but I don’t believe that.”
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