Article: Taxi driver 'beaten to death by racist gang'

Teenagers yelled abuse during revenge attack, murder trial told

Nishika Patel

A TEENAGE gang shouted racist slurs as they beat an Asian taxi driver to death in a "revenge" attack, a court was told yesterday.

Mohammad Parvaiz was lured down a cul-de-sac in Huddersfield on the pretext of a fare and "ambushed" by six teenagers,

Jurors at Leeds Crown Court were told the father-of-three was then hit with stones, dragged from his vehicle and beaten and kicked to death while the gang of white teenagers hurled racist abuse at him.

He suffered a fractured skull and jaw, broken ribs and brain damage during the assault in Golcar, Huddersfield, on July 22 this year and was later pronounced dead in ...

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