By Safa Suling Tan

Muhammad Nazir, 56, was heading back to the taxi rank in Market Street, Colne, when he was attacked in his taxi on December 9.
Nazir was on his way when he had to stop outside the Yorkshire Bank as two women had run out onto the road. A man was reported to have opened the car door, shouted racial abuse and punched Nazir.
The self-employed Hackney carriage driver of Poplar Street, Nelson, is left with a broken nose and shattered teeth. Nazir now suffers from nightmares about being attacked, and is considering giving up his job of three years because he feels it has become too dangerous. According to This is Lancashire (December 12), Nazir said, “Whoever did this really hurt me. I’m in a lot of pain and I can’t eat anything because my mouth hurts so much. I’ve had no sleep because every time I fall asleep I feel like people are coming to attack me.
I’m not a young man and I’m thinking now that driving taxis is just too risky. All I’m trying to do is support my family, and provide a good service, but we have so many problems on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights that we are all frightened.” Nazir is a single father raising six children.
A spokesperson of Lancashire Police told The Muslim News, “The police received the call at 12.03am and from CCTV footage, there were about four to five females and males aged 17 to 19 years involved. The main offender was a white male with short brown hair and wearing a white top. Some racial slur was shouted beforehand. However, whether it is racially motivated or the racial abuse as part of the attack remains to be ascertained.”

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