Terrified taxi driver jumps out of his car as it's engulfed in flames when a drunk passenger asks to stop at a petrol station to buy beer then soaks the back seat in fuel and sets it alight

This is the shocking moment two drunk thugs poured petrol into a taxi and set it on fire with the driver still inside.

Warren Hearne, 36, and Danny Frost, 27, got into the cab and asked driver Abdulawar Malikzadev to stop at the nearby petrol so they could buy beer before launching the unprovoked attack.

Father-of-three Hearne was seen on CCTV getting out of the car and stumbling over towards one of the fuel pumps.

He then pulled the nozzle over to the taxi, soaked the back seats in petrol and set them on fire before running away.

Cab driver Malikzadev was forced to jump out of his vehicle and scramble to get his belongings before the car was engulfed in flames.

Hearne was jailed for six years and four months and Frost was sentenced to five years and seven months at Canterbury Crown Court after they both pleaded guilty to reckless arson.

Malikzadev collected Hearne and Frost following a night out in the Kent town of Hythe.

The pair hassled the cabbie the entire journey, opening the door while the taxi was moving and then berating the driver when he stopped.

They then asked Malikzadev to stop at the nearby BP petrol station so they could 'buy beer' - but neither attackers went inside the shop.

Instead, CCTV footage showed Hearne loitering around the taxi before stumbling over to a fuel pump.




https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6499243/Shocking-moment-drunk-duo-nearly-kill-taxi-driver-setting-car-fire-Kent.html

What's the bloody world coming to?

Evil bastards.
My OH drove a black cab for years and he could tell some stories about the absolute nutters he picked up, especially at night.