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<td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><font size="1"><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF"><b><a name="min"></a>Minicab
driver gets 13 years for rape</b></font><font size="1"> </font><b><font color="#FFFFFF">
- 27/0</font></b><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>9/01</b></font></font></td>
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<p><font size="1">A minicab driver has been sentenced at the Old Bailey
to thirteen years in prison for abducting and raping a 25 year-old
woman in Camden's King's Cross. Mohammed Elahi of Holloway Road
picked up the woman on December 18th last year in Camden Town while
working for Euston Cars. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">But instead of driving to her home, he drove her
to a flat in King's Cross where he and another man raped her. The
woman was later seen running down the street naked and highly distressed.
She now has no recollection of the ordeal. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Elahi's associate has not been found and police
believe he may have fled to Bangladesh where both men are originally
from. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Recorder John Nutting, QC, said to Elahi: "Taxi
drivers, whether minicabs or those licensed to carry passengers,
exercise a position of trust. Those who hire a service are entitled
to expect that when they hire a minicab or licensed taxi they will
be safely taken to their chosen destination. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">"This applies especially to women who often understandably
feel vulnerable on the streets of large cities and who, particularly
after dark, prefer to travel in the safety of a taxi or minicab.
On December 18 last year you abused that trust. The victim had been
in your care because the staff in the pub felt she was too intoxicated
to find her way home safely." </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Elahi, who picked the woman up from the Prince Arthur
pub in Camden, at first claimed that he had dropped the woman of
safely in Great Portland Street. But when he was confronted with
DNA evidence he changed his story and claimed that she had asked
for sex. The jury convicted him of rape by an 11-1 majority. </font></p>
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- 18/0</font></b><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>9/01</b></font></font></td>
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<p><font size="1">Camden police are increasing their efforts to clean
up the area around Kings Cross by asking residents and businesses
for information about drug dealers. </font><font size="1">Around
1,000 local residents and businesses have been sent forms which
request details about the activities of drug dealers in the neighbourhood.
</font></p>
<p><font size="1">The forms are known as Community Intelligence Documents
and ask people about drug dealing they have seen from their homes,
shops or offices. The police believe that the information will help
them to target, arrest and convict drug dealers. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Speaking to the Ham & High, Gary Buttercase of the
King's Cross Partnership, which is funding the initiative, said:
"This is death by a thousand cuts for the drug dealers in King's
Cross."</font></p>
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<td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><font size="1"><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF"><b><a name="tra"></a></b></font><font size="1"><b><font color="#FFFFFF">Tractor
gets parking ticket</font></b> </font><b><font color="#FFFFFF"> -
11/0</font></b><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>9/01</b></font></font></td>
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<p><font size="1">A Dorset dairy farmer got a parking ticket from
Camden Council - for his blue Ford Holland tractor which has never
been more than twenty miles from his farm. Roger Yeoman was fined
�40 for parking in April on West Hampstead's Iverson Road - but
assumed that it must be a hoax. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Mr Yeoman's tractor has a top speed of 17 mph and
he has never been to West Hampstead. The trip to Camden seems even
more unlikely given that April was the height of the foot and mouth
crisis - an extremely trying time for farmers around the country.
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<p><font size="1">After Mr Yeoman ignored the ticket, Camden pursued
him further and then he realised that the number plate on the documentation
was just one digit different from that on his tractor. Things then
turned nasty when the farmer was told that failure to pay would
mean an increase in the fine and the possibility of a county court
judgement against him. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Eventually, Camden admitted their error but speaking
to the Ham & High, Mr Yeoman said: "A dairy farm is busy all year
round and this has cost me in terms of time and inconvenience."</font></p>
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<td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><font size="1"><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF"><b><a name="cou"></a></b></font><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Court
Hears of Kings Cross Rape</b></font><b><font color="#FFFFFF"> - 05/0</font></b><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>9/01</b></font></font></td>
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<p><font size="1">A woman was raped by the minicab driver hired to
take her a short trip home, the Old Bailey heard yesterday. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">The 25-year old was driven instead to King's Cross
where she was forced to have sex with three men before she escaped
naked into the street. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">The attack which happened a week before Christmas,
left the victim shocked, traumatised and with a two hour gap in
her memory of the events, the jury heard. </font> </p>
<p><font size="1">Mohammed Elahi, 28, who drove a black BMW for Euston
Cars, denies the rape although admits to </font><font size="1">
having consensual sex with the alleged victim. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">DNA samples taken from the alleged victim provided
"extremely strong" evidence that he had been one of the three men
involved, said Stephen Holt, prosecuting. The case continues. </font></p>
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<td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><font size="1"><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF"><b><a name="gra"></a></b></font><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Grave
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<p><font size="1">Camden Council are appealing for help to recover
a famous life-size statue which formed part of an historic tomb
in Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Road, NW6. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">The thieves got into the cemetery by removing a
bollard from the road and opening three security gates by force
on either the evening of Monday August 27 or on the morning of Tuesday
August 28. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">The Grade II* listed statue is of national importance.
It was created in bronze by the renowned Welsh sculptor Sir William
Goscombe John who studied in Paris under Rodin. The statue is particularly
special because it formed part of a tomb in which Sir William and
his wife Martha lie. It was created after Martha's death in 1923.
</font></p>
<p><font size="1">The statutory Grade II listing describes the statue
as, 'a female figure, in flowing robes with her head covered by
an enveloping shawl, moving away from the spectator, her head turned
for a final backward glance with fingers of right arm raised to
the lips'. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Police are appealing for witnesses or anyone with
information on the statue's whereabouts to call police on 020 7388
1212, stating Crime Ref Number: 2333045/01. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Camden is appealing to anyone with information to
get in touch with the police immediately to ensure its safe recovery.
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