Taxi driver attacker jailed
A 21-YEAR-OLD man who was involved in a terrifying robbery where he grabbed a taxi driver by the throat and dragged him out of his car has been jailed for more than four years.
Bradford Crown Court heard that Cameron Wilkinson attacked cabbie Tariq Mahmood just two months after he had been part of a gang of hooded burglars gang who had targeted a home in Ovenden Way, Halifax.
Prosecutor Georgina Coade told the court that Wilkinson and an accomplice had been picked up by Mr Mahmood in the Illingworth Road area on the night of November 24, 2018. She said the passengers directed him down a dead end where Wilkinson grabbed the cabbie round the neck and both of them demanded his money.
The cabbie eventually handed over his keys following the assault by Wilkinson and the pair drove off .
Although Mr Mahmood had no visible injuries in a victim impact statement he described being “very shaken up” by the incident.
Wilkinson, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to the robbery charge about a year after the incident and he also admitted his part in a burglary offence from September 2018 and to a charge of aggravated vehicle taking.
Judge Colin Burn sentenced Wilkinson to 22 months in jail for the flat burglary with an additional 32 months for the taxi driver robbery.
He will serve up to half of the 54-month prison term and was banned from driving for a total of 39 months.
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