Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
£115k payout to girl hurt in NY cab crash
A WOMAN who lost part of her leg after being mown down by a taxi in New York has won a £115,000 payout.
Sian Green-lord, 29, was on the first day of a dream holiday when the yellow cab mounted the kerb.
It ploughed into her and severed her left foot.
Witnesses said the driver was in a road-rage clash with a bicycle courier moments earlier.
Sian said: “The last thing I remember is the cyclist being on the hood of the car and I flipped in the air.”
Taxi driver Faysal Himon has never faced criminal charges over the crash, in Manhattan in 2013, and blames it on the cyclist.
Sian, of Leicester, was awarded compensation last month. She said: “It’s the first time in a long time I’ve felt really positive.” SOLICITOR Pat Finucane was murdered to silence other human rights lawyers, his son said ahead of the anniversary of his murder.
This week marks 30 years since he was shot 14 times by loyalists in collusion with British security forces while enjoying Sunday lunch with his family.
Son John – who was a schoolboy when his 39-year-old father died in front of him at their North Belfast home – said yesterday: “Our lives changed forever.”
Speaking at a commemorative event in Belfast, he added: “It was a deliberate decision to kill him, to silence other lawyers and prevent them from doing that type of work.
“What we see now is a generation coming through with lawyers, people wanting their human rights.
“I think that is very much a legacy of Pat Finucane and what he stands for and represents. That gives me enormous
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