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Article: Teen jailed for serious assault on taxi driver.
- Article from:
- Northampton Chronicle and Echo (Northampton, England)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2007
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A teenage yob has been detained for 21 months for his part in a drunken gang's attack on a taxi driver which saw youths as young as 14 help beat the victim unconscious.
Nathan Kightley, aged 18, of Queen Eleanor Road, Far Cotton, admitted punching a taxi driver in the face at the Tesco store in East Hunsbury on November 24 last year after the taxi driver claimed the teenager had taken the vehicle's keys.
Kightley had reached into the taxi to stop the car because he wanted to speak to a group of girl passengers.
Other youths then took items including the driver's wallet, phone and satellite navigation system from the vehicle's glove box.
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