Monday 12 October 2015

Taxi touts jailed over fare scam

Two taxi touts have been jailed for fooling foreign students into paying hundreds of pounds extra for cab rides.




Kenneth Grieveson and Frederick Gross worked as unlicensed drivers at Heathrow airport.

They approached students as they arrived in England for the first time, claiming to be their drivers.

Grieveson and Gross were found guilty of obtaining property by deception and were sentenced to two years and 15 months in jail respectively.

Grieveson, 47, of Portsmouth, Hampshire, and Gross, 35, of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, would charge the students huge sums before passing them on to other unlicensed taxi drivers, who would take them to the language schools where they were staying.
One 15-year-old Japanese girl was charged £340 for a cab ride to Southampton, while another Japanese student was told to pay £240 for a taxi ride to Golders Green, north London. Read more


After this incidence London Police said that it was a shameful incident and they were alerted to the students and the tourists who were coming in London at first time that they should be aware of licensed travelling agencies.

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