Jail for racist thug who shouted 'EDL' when he attacked a taxi driver

**magwash** · 30-01-2012, 07:03 PM

Jail for racist thug who shouted 'EDL' when he attacked a taxi driver

Monday, January 30, 2012

A RACIST thug who punched a taxi driver and dragged him along a street, has been jailed for 18 months.

Lee Preston, 22, targeted cabbie Mohammed Rashid, leaving him with two black eyes, a bruised face and grazes to his shoulders caused when he was dragged to the ground.

Lee Preston was among a group of men who attacked a taxi driver in Derby.

Mr John Hallisey, prosecuting, said the cabbie received a call at 9pm on April 16 to collect five men from Chaddesden.

He noticed they were carrying cans of lager and told them these could not be drunk in his vehicle.

But after a few minutes, the men started drinking.

"Mr Rashid told them to stop and the response was to start hurling abuse.

"The defendant was saying 'we are EDL,' referring to the English Defence League," said Mr Hallisey.

Preston, of Walbrook Road, Derby, began to throw beer cans out of the taxi until Mr Rashid closed the windows – a move which angered the passengers.

Mr Rashid stopped his cab and told the five to leave.

One said: "Get out and we'll sort you out."

When they eventually left, they failed to close the rear doors but Mr Rashid waited until he thought they had walked away before getting out of the cab..

But he was then grabbed and prevented from getting back into the vehicle before being attacked.

During this, he heard chants of "EDL" and one man said: "I'm going to kill you."

When a second taxi driver stopped to help, he was also assaulted and had his vehicle kicked.

Police were called and Preston was found hiding under a bush.

He admitted affray and racially aggravated assault causing actual bodily harm.

Judge Granville Styler told Preston: "In drink you are a complete lout. This will tarnish your whole career if you are not very careful. This was a disgraceful episode as you no doubt now realise."

Clive Stockwell, mitigating, told the court: "His record is of a nuisance drunk. I have read a statement from his father who is clearly of the view that his son had a difficulty with drink and he then behaves in a most disgraceful way."

Mr Stockwell said Preston had gained some educational qualifications while in custody. When he is freed, his father plans to find him work on market stalls."

The judge told Preston: "It may well be you find on the market stall most of your customers will be Pakistani people so you will have to change your attitude pretty quickly."

Three other men have pleaded not guilty to charges arising from the night and are awaiting trial. A fifth man has pleaded guilty.

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**alycidond9009** · 30-01-2012, 07:24 PM

The judge told Preston: "It may well be you find on the market stall most of your customers will be Pakistani people so you will have to change your attitude pretty quickly."

So even the Judge admits that Whites will be a minority in a short time span....

"he heard chants of "EDL"

Yeah, I bet He did....

**josher** · 30-01-2012, 07:30 PM

I wonder if the taxi driver was properly insured and paying tax or even having a uk license

**alycidond9009** · 30-01-2012, 07:34 PM

Police around here are to frightened to even ask....

**Road_Hog** · 30-01-2012, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by magwash

Jail for racist thug who shouted 'EDL' when he attacked a taxi driver

Cheers Denise, I needed to dump some neg rep somewhere, and you just reminded where I should put it. BTW, has your girlfriend left you?

**TheCally** · 30-01-2012, 08:47 PM

Road_Hog what is the grey rep?

**Road_Hog** · 30-01-2012, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by TheCally

Road_Hog what is the grey rep?

Grey rep is where a member hasn't earned enough rep to green/red rep someone. It is difficult to tell whether they have attempted to positive or neg rep you. If they have left no message, then you know it is a positive rep, because you can't leave a neg rep without typing in some comment. Although if they do type in a comment, it might still be positive, you just don't know.

Now, I'm colour blind (serioulsy), so if you weren't referring to the colour of rep left, but maybe to Magwash's rep colour, it's that colour because she's been neg repped to hell, i.e. she is disliked by so many people, that she is the only person on the forum to get two red/grey bars.

**TheCally** · 30-01-2012, 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by Road_Hog

Grey rep is where a member hasn't earned enough rep to green/red rep someone. It is difficult to tell whether they have attempted to positive or neg rep you. If they have left no message, then you know it is a positive rep, because you can't leave a neg rep without typing in some comment. Although if they do type in a comment, it might still be positive, you just don't know.

Now, I'm colour blind (serioulsy), so if you weren't referring to the colour of rep left, but maybe to Magwash's rep colour, it's that colour because she's been neg repped to hell, i.e. she is disliked by so many people, that she is the only person on the forum to get two red/grey bars.

Thanks for that.
It was for rep left that I was on about.
You're not left handed as well are you?