Post by acnedriver on Mar 27, 2023 6:04:14 GMT
A taxi driver ‘no longer works nights’ after being robbed and threatened by three passengers.
Ellie Wade, 25, and Jordan Thorpe, 20, were spared jail at Burnley Crown Court on Friday (March 24) for their involvement in the robbery.
Claire Brocklebank, prosecuting, said Wade and Thorpe, along with ringleader Ryan Gardener, and another woman got in a taxi in Merlin Close, Leyland, at around 11pm on December 18, 2020.
Due to the long journey to near Preston, the taxi driver asked for the fare upfront and Gardener attempted to pay.
When his card was declined, the driver said they must either pay another way or get out of the taxi.
Gardener grabbed the taxi driver from the back seat and shouted ‘rob him, rob him’.
Thorpe helped in restraining the driver, with Wade stealing just over £20 in change.
Other items were stolen from the driver and the girls fled, Gardener got out of the car, reached back through the window and punched the driver.
www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/23410566.taxi-drivers-terror-robbed-passengers/
Ellie Wade, 25, and Jordan Thorpe, 20, were spared jail at Burnley Crown Court on Friday (March 24) for their involvement in the robbery.
Claire Brocklebank, prosecuting, said Wade and Thorpe, along with ringleader Ryan Gardener, and another woman got in a taxi in Merlin Close, Leyland, at around 11pm on December 18, 2020.
Due to the long journey to near Preston, the taxi driver asked for the fare upfront and Gardener attempted to pay.
When his card was declined, the driver said they must either pay another way or get out of the taxi.
Gardener grabbed the taxi driver from the back seat and shouted ‘rob him, rob him’.
Thorpe helped in restraining the driver, with Wade stealing just over £20 in change.
Other items were stolen from the driver and the girls fled, Gardener got out of the car, reached back through the window and punched the driver.
www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/23410566.taxi-drivers-terror-robbed-passengers/