A taxi driver was arrested following a series of taxi licensing checks in Aylesbury town centre yesterday.

The driver of the private hire vehicle was taken into custody after he failed to provide a private hire driver licence.

Five vehicles were stopped during the operation and four drivers were issued with warnings. 

The cautions were given for not wearing their private hire driver badge and having an expired first aid kit while one vehicle was displaying an expired private hire vehicle licence plate.

The new plate was later found in his boot.

The checks were jointly carried out by the Aylesbury town centre neighbourhood policing team along with officers from the licensing department of Aylesbury Vale District Council.

http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/crime/taxi-driver-arrested-in-licensing-operation-1-6182342
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TEESIDE

A taxi driver’s life was ruined after he was robbed at knifepoint by a night-time passenger.

Karl Andrew Barnes was jailed for more than four years after he heard how his crime affected its vulnerable victim.

The cabbie said it left him a “changed person”, so scared he had to give up his livelihood.

The dad’s wife wants the family to leave the UK because she no longer feels safe.

Barnes, 23, grabbed his keys, turned off his car’s ignition and said: “Give me the money.”

He held a knife to the taxi driver’s chest, Teesside Crown Court heard today.

The drunken passenger was picked up from Dovecot Street, central Stockton on January 30.

He asked the driver to stop on Coulthard Court, South Bank then emerged from a home and came to the driver’s window.

The taxi driver thought he’d be paid as he wound his window down, said prosecutor Peter Sabiston.

Instead Barnes demanded his cash and his phone and spouted racial abuse at him.

He robbed the driver of £130 and the phone before he ran off at about 12.40am.

He’d fetched the knife from an acquaintance’s home on that street, the court was told.


http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/karl-barnes-ruins-taxi-drivers-7437661
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Woman, 18, in court over knife attack on Telford taxi driver

A teenager appeared in court today to face charges after a taxi driver was cut in a knife attack in Telford.

Chloe Louise Watts, 18, of Sutton Hill, Telford did not enter a plea at Shrewsbury Crown Court.

She and a 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were originally charged with attempted murder.

They were arrested following an attack in Mossey Green, Ketley Bank, after which a taxi driver in his 40s needed 11 stitches to his hand.

But today Watts faced lesser charges of attempted robbery, wounding and possession of a blade in a public place.

Her co-defendant appeared at the same court on Monday where he pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding and possessing the knife.
He pleaded not guilty to attempted robbery and the crown prosecution service dropped the charge.

Watts' case was adjourned until Friday, July 25 for the crown to add a charge of assisting an offender.


http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2014/07/16/woman-18-in-court-over-knife-attack-on-telford-taxi-driver/