A cyclist has been accused of assault even though he claims the events of the incident are completely inaccurate. 39 – year – old Jared Kelly, a screenwriter, has been accused of assaulting a taxi driver in Oxford.
According to Mr Kelly, he was cycling west along Oxford Street on Tuesday 9th March between four and five in the afternoon. Mr Kelly reports that a taxi driver over took him and proceeded to cut up his path of travel when the taxi driver pulled over to pick passengers up, this resulted in Mr Kelly running into the back of the Taxi.
Mr Kelly told the London Evening Standard “I was just tootling along – I’m not an idiot who goes fast – when I was aware of a taxi overtaking me. He just cut straight across me and stopped. I went straight into the back of him and fell to the floor”. Mr. Kelly confronted the taxi driver, in an attempt to receive an explanation for his behaviour, this only resulted in the taxi driver saying obscenities to Mr. Kelly and also being racially abusive. Mr. Kelly couldn’t understand why the taxi driver was being so rude. Mr. Kelly responded by telling the taxi driver that he was a disgrace to his country. Mr. Kelly said that the taxi driver exploded and grabbed the scarf that Mr. Kelly was wearing using it as a noose around his neck and strangled him until he was unconscious.
Mr Kelly has now posted an appeal for any witnesses to come forward so that the claims against him are dropped as when he came around on the ground believing he had been involved in a road accident he was approached by a Police Officer who questioned him in a hostile manner as the taxi driver told the Officer that Mr. Kelly was the attacker. Mr. Kelly was handcuffed and charged with assaulting the driver.
