Tuesday 5 July 2022

IT Consultant's Taxi Race Row

Westminster Magistrates' Court
An IT consultant has received a suspended prison sentence after a late-night train station race row with a taxi driver ended with an assault on a police officer.

Maxwell Foord-Paton, 30, of Holmesdale Gardens, Hastings was sentenced at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.


He pleaded guilty to using racially-aggravated threatening behaviour towards Mohammed Farhat outside London Bridge Station on February 20, 2020.


Foord-Paton also pleaded guilty to causing £188 worth of criminal damage to the inside of a taxi.


He was arrested and taken to Brixton Police Station and pleaded guilty to assaulting PC Jordan O’Sullivan on February 21.


Foord-Paton was sentenced to a total of twelve weeks imprisonment, suspended for eighteen months and ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid community service work.


He must also comply with a three-month electronically-tagged nighttime curfew to remain at home between 11.00pm and 5.00am.


Foord-Paton must also attend up to twenty days of a Probation Service-ordered rehabilitation activity requirement.


The court also ordered him to pay £188 compensation for the criminal damage; a further £150 in compensation; £85 costs and a £128 victim surcharge.


Foord-Paton will pay at the rate of £50.00 per month.

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