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The Mirror

October 9, 2006 Monday

HEADLINE: TAXI KILLER ASKS FOR LICENCE BACK

BYLINE: BY STEPHEN WHITE

A CABBIE who ran over and killed travel agent Stephanie Hammill as she fled a "sexual predator" is trying to get his licence back.

Mohammed Ashiq was stripped of his Hackney carriage licence in February after his conviction for driving off and leaving the stricken 20-year-old dying in the road.

Ashiq is applying to Wakefield Council, West Yorks to have his licence reinstated. His application comes days after Ioannis Revenikiotis, who lured Miss Hammill into the car which she was fleeing when struck by Ashiq's cab, was branded a "sexual predatory animal" by a judge and ordered to a secure unit under the Mental Health Act.

Ashiq, who ran over Stephanie in Wakefield, was convicted by Dewsbury Magistrates of failing to stop and failing to report the accident to police and banned from driving for 18 months.

Dismissing Ashiq's appeal at Leeds Crown Court in March, Judge Brian Duckworth said Ashiq must have known that he had hit something "very substantial" in the road and should have stopped.

Investigations showed Stephanie had been dragged 25 yards along the road.
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Why doesn't the fella just move on and leave our trade alone.

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