Drunk thugs jailed for threatening to shoot taxi driver during robbery

A TAXI driver was told he would be shot by robbers who forced him to drive to an isolated location and stole his cash and car.

Nottingham Crown Court heard the two robbers only stopped threatening to shoot Syed Shah when he told them where the money was.

The attack came during a period in which taxi drivers in Nottingham were being targeted by criminals.

Mr Shah picked up his attackers from the Jolly Higglers pub in Ilkeston Road, Radford, at 10pm on April 27 last year.

He first took them to Beeston Marina, where passenger Anthony McEntee told back seat passenger Alan Buxton to get out and get the money.

Mr Shah ran away, but 40-year-old McEntee, of Church Drive, Carrington, realised he still had his mobile phone and chased him.

The taxi driver hid under pavilion stairs and saw his car taillights disappear as the pair drove away. He then called police.

Officers found the abandoned taxi near the home of McEntee's partner.

McEntee was arrested after a burglary on May 7 when he stole �100-worth of booze and took it back to his tent at Holme Pierrepont campsite.

Traced by blood he left in the car and on the inside of a window frame, he pleaded guilty to the taxi robbery and the burglary and was jailed for three years.

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