The Royal Gazette: "A judge advised taxi drivers who fear being attacked to carry “a good piece of wood” or a bat, but not a knife or gun in their cab.
Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves made the comments before freeing a taxi driver from jail seven months into his three-year sentence for possessing a knife and machete.
Gladwin Cann’s lawyer argued he should never have been convicted, as he had the machete in his cab for his job as a landscape gardener and the knife to eat steak with.
While Mr Justice Greaves condemned what Cann did, he acknowledged that some taxi drivers are scared to go about their work due to the threat of violence.
“If I was driving a taxi God forbid, that’s one of the jobs I never want, I don’t want that or to be a prison officer but I would say that a good piece of wood does a lot of work,” he commented."
Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves made the comments before freeing a taxi driver from jail seven months into his three-year sentence for possessing a knife and machete.
Gladwin Cann’s lawyer argued he should never have been convicted, as he had the machete in his cab for his job as a landscape gardener and the knife to eat steak with.
While Mr Justice Greaves condemned what Cann did, he acknowledged that some taxi drivers are scared to go about their work due to the threat of violence.
“If I was driving a taxi God forbid, that’s one of the jobs I never want, I don’t want that or to be a prison officer but I would say that a good piece of wood does a lot of work,” he commented."
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