Stabbed taxi driver – gets five years in prison – Göteborgs-Posten

the Man who held down a taxi driver in Majorna – and then drove at a cyclist is sentenced to five years in prison.

Gothenburg A man was sentenced to five years in prison for attempted murder against a taxi driver outside a nightspot in Majorna. In addition, the folds, he, during his escape from the place, having rammed a cyclist.

It was early on a Sunday morning, the 14th of August, that a great uproar arose in the vicinity of the nightclub, the sugar refinery in Klippanområdet.
Taxis from the different companies were all lined up in anticipation of the customers.

Suddenly appeared a Uber-drivers up and claimed that he had already booked driving.
The infected discussion that arose was about that he would have pushed himself ahead of the other taxi drivers.
A 31-year-old man, friends with the newly arrived Uber-driver, interfered in the quarrel.
What happened next in the chaos on the Banehagsgatan testified a number of different people if in the district court.

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Court drew the greatest emphasis on the story that was left of a younger man, without the slightest link to any of all those involved.
He was on his way home from the pub.

According to the young man’s version 31-year-old – which is before the court, claimed self-defence – attacked one of the taxi drivers with a long knife.
This was done, according to eyewitness, before the difficult bleeding taxiföraren downloaded a jack in his vehicle and, in turn, went to the counterattack.
- When the person injured afterwards took off the jacket sound pulsing out blood. The offender then leapt into his car and drove quickly away, said the young man, and found that it is not, therefore, been a matter of self-defense.

the Victim had met of seven stab – of which two of the most serious penetrated one lung, respectively, of the vital parts in the neck and was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition.
the 31-year-old fled at high speed. On Karl Johansgatan, near vagnhallarna, collided with a male cyclist.
He did relatively well, but the bike was squashed.

the Man did not stop, but disappeared and condemned, therefore, for unauthorized deviation from the trafikolycksplats.
district Court type:
“Having regard in particular to the case of multiple stab wounds and that there existed a clear risk of a fatal or irreversible, but considers the right to crime has a straffvärde of five years in prison”.
the 31-year-old must also pay compensation to the knivskurne the driver on the 127 400 sek.