February 10, 2007
Taxi Driver Dies In Cab
The rank at Maida Vale is a favourite place for stop-over cabs and day and night men changeovers, so it’s not unusual to see two or three empty cabs parked on there at night doing nobody any harm.
Around three weeks before Christmas, a driver (we will call him Alan) who lives near the rank and would often park his own cab on it when he finished work in the early hours, became aware of a driver of one particular cab that began to park regularly on the rank who slept in the back of it overnight.
Alan would see the old boy from time to time when he finished work but didn’t attach much importance to the situation, as he thought that perhaps he was a driver who lived outside London down to earn some money over the Christmas period and who had elected to sleep rough to save a few quid.
After a while Alan noticed that the cab had not moved nor had he seen the driver. He didn’t think it strange as there are always comings and goings on the rank. It was only on his return from a Christmas break that his suspicions were aroused. The cab was still there and didn’t look right to Alan, so one day he had a look in the window and saw what he thought was a bedroll on the back seat. He went to work that night still thinking something wasn’t right.
When he returned from work he noticed one of the rear windows was open so he got his torch out of his cab and shone it in the back and confirmed it was indeed a bedroll, a black one.
Next day, 25 January, Alan and his friend (also a cab driver) were having a coffee around the corner from the rank when the cab that had not moved was the subject of conversation. Alan’s friend suggested they go over and have another look so off they went.
Alan’s friend took one look in the back window and announced that the bedroll was a dead body and being that he was an undertaker before becoming a cab driver Alan had no reason to doubt him.
The police were called and first on the scene were a couple of community police officers from the bank opposite who had a look in the back of the cab but didn’t touch anything.
They were quickly followed by a patrol car, an ambulance, an Inspector from Harrow Road police station and several members of the CID.
Alan told TAXI that he thought the officer who uncovered the body mentioned that there was a knife in the body, so the police may well have a murder investigation on their hands.
We have also been told that the garage that rented out the cab reported it missing on 3 January 2007, so the cab driver whose body was found in the back of the cab may have been dead for some time.
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