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Elderly woman took a taxi to die in Liverpool’s Albert Dock
Feb 25 2009 by Richard Down, Birkenhead News

AN ELDERLY Wirral woman took a taxi to Liverpool’s Albert Dock to die.

Roma McCann, 81, known as Jean to friends, gave away her parrot, pinned a note to the door and told neighbours she was not coming back, before leaving home on January 2 this year. The Prenton woman was found later that day drowned in the tourist spot.

Her friend Kathleen Steven told an inquest that Mrs McCann had lost a bit of her spark in recent weeks.

Mrs Steven, a fellow Jehovah’s Witness, said her friend had asked her to take on the parrot as she was finding it hard to cope.

Mrs McCann took a taxi, telling her driver Tony Carr that she wanted to look at the river. The court heard that some way into the journey, Mr Carr became suspicious.

He said: “I was told she wanted to go to Lime Street so the change alarmed me. I suggested Albert Dock as it is a place where lots of people go. It would be busy, I hoped.”

Mr Carr informed staff of his concerns but a security guard lost sight of Mrs McCann in the crowds.

A note found pinned to her door revealed this was a plan Mrs McCann was determined to carry through.

Speaking afterwards, Pauline Taylor, a relative of Mrs McCann’s late husband, said: “She was a character and was very well known.’’

Verdict: she took her own life.

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Dundee taxi drivers are forever being asked to stop on tay road bridge it is not a nice experience trying to tell some who wants to jump of the bridge that you are not going to stop.One person jumped from a taxi on the bridge just so they could jump of the bridge.The tay rd bridge is just over 1 mile long.

I hope they paid the fare first.

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Grandad,

no but i have been asked for a bank money bag .i think she wanted to keep her money dry.she was picked up on the bridge by the police after i contacted them.

That's a really sad story

Awwww don't cry. We seldom have happy taxi stories in our local paper the other one was about a bogus taxi driver they were trying to get on rape charges. I thought this was the lesser of the 2 evils

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

What a place.....either suicides or rapes....and the suicide is the happier story

CC

If you lived here you'd understand

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

"Awwww don't cry. We seldom have happy taxi stories in our local paper the other one was about a bogus taxi driver they were trying to get on rape charges. I thought this was the lesser of the 2 evils"


A place worse than Dundee never, I bet your councils better than ours

I always remember an article about a young lady from toots side of the river that actually bit a blokes plums off..... she really sank her teeth in...

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

You know I bet it probably is, which makes me wonder how the hell there are any cabbies at all in Dundee

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

OOH Did She spit the stones out

No.. she just sank her teeth in.. and kept pulling and shaking her head,,, and just wouldn't let go until the scrotum separated....

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

So us ladies from this side are not pushovers



We're also not reknown for giving stuff back

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!