{"id":8118,"date":"2014-12-30T15:51:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T15:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/30\/woman-jailed-for-racial-abuse\/"},"modified":"2014-12-30T15:51:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T15:51:32","slug":"woman-jailed-for-racial-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/30\/woman-jailed-for-racial-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Jailed for Racial Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Female Cancer Sufferer who Verbally Abused Taxi Driver is Sentenced<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"467\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"184\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/Gallery\/londontaxi-467x184.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nA woman with her Bull Terrier intimidated a taxi driver, Mohammed Khan, and his sister, attempted to assault them with the dog\u2019s chain and unleashed a spate of racial abuse at them, a court heard.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nConvicted knifewoman 39-year-old Shelley Anne Taylor, who is banned from having dogs, hurled abuse at the brother and sister and shouted, \u2018Get back to where you belong\u2019, as they tried to escape the vicious animal. They were finally rescued by a paramedic who saw the whole incident from near Burnley General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nTaylor was disqualified from having custody of a dog by Accrington magistrates, this was after a dog previously owned by her was allegedly poisoned and killed by her.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe defendant, who also has cancer, admitted to breach of a court order banning custody of a dog, being in charge of a dangerous dog, racially-aggravated harassment, alarm or distress and assault by beating.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nTaylor, of Ferndale Street, Burnley, was handed a two-year community order, with supervision and a four-week, 9pm to 7am curfew and must pay a \u00a350 fine, \u00a385 costs and a \u00a360 victim surcharge. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe defendant admitted seeing the Khans were screaming but denied trying to attack them with the chain. Representing Taylor, David Leach, said she was being treated for cancer and stated, \u201cShe is hoping the disease has gone into remission.\u201d&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female Cancer Sufferer who Verbally Abused Taxi Driver is Sentenced &#13; A woman with her Bull Terrier intimidated a taxi driver, Mohammed Khan, and his sister, attempted to assault them with the dog\u2019s chain and unleashed a spate of racial abuse at them, a court heard. &#13; Convicted knifewoman 39-year-old Shelley Anne Taylor, who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}