On Tuesday March 9th, at around 5.30pm, in London this guy was cut up but a taxi so badly that he collided with the back of the cab. Sounds nasty.
During the ensuing conversation, where the taxi driver issued racial insults, the cabbie strangled the cyclist to unconsciousness with the cyclists scarf. When the cyclist came round, he was arrested for assaulting the taxi driver!!!
A witness who saw the cyclist being arrested tried to tell the arresting Police officer that he'd be a witness for the cyclist but was shooed away by the copper. :-(
Then the cyclist has to appear in court and defend himself against the egregious false allegation. It's only because the first witness went to a Police station and gave testimony that the cyclist's name was cleared.
I've got to say I truly hope the taxi driver is charged. Not only did he violently assault the cyclist and incorrectly call him a 'paki' (he's of mixed Irish, Scottish and English heritage :-D), so it was a racially motivated assault, but he wasted Police time and probably either gave false testimony or committed perjury.
The story in the London Evening Standard.
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