4:10pm Wednesday 5th November 2008
By Jenny Makin
DETECTIVES are hunting two gunmen who held up a taxi driver in Southampton.
The armed men, both wearing masks, tapped on the window of the driver’s car while he was having a rest between calls last night.
He had pulled into the layby outside Hollybrook Cemetery, opposite Southampton General Hospital in Tremona Road, when the pair pointed the gun through the open window.
The taxi driver, aged 50, was said to have been extremely shaken and handed over £65 before the pair ran off into the cemetery.
Police were called at 11.45pm and armed response units were deployed to the scene where a search of the area was carried out.
Det Sgt Dave Jackson, from Bitterne CID, said this type of crime is extremely rare.
He said: “It is unusual for someone to target a taxi driver in this way and he was, naturally, very shaken up. Officers were deployed to the scene and carried out a full search but nothing was recovered. I would now urge anyone who saw something suspicious or who knows anything about what happened to come forward and speak to us.”
The first man is described as white, around 5ft 10in, of medium build and wearing a beige jacket with a hood. His accomplice is said to be around the same height and build but there is no further description.
Witnesses should contact Bitterne CID on 0845 045 4545 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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