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3-yr-old hurt after gang attack taxi

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3-yr-old hurt after gang attack taxi

Mar 25 2003

By Greg Truscott

South London Press

A THREE-YEAR-OLD child needed emergency surgery for head injuries when a gang of men surrounded a taxi he was in and hurled bricks through its windows.

One of the missiles smashed through the front passenger window and hit the terrified boy, causing serious injuries.

The taxi's petrified driver managed to escape and rushed the injured child, travelling with a 23-year-old man, to hospital where he underwent surgery.

The child is now in a stable condition at a south London hospital. He is expected to make a full recovery.

The apparently motiveless attack happened when the taxi driver picked up the man and child in Dorset Road, Clapham, at lunchtime on Tuesday last week.

The taxi had stopped close to a parade of shops in the road at around 12.30pm and its driver sounded his horn to make the man and child aware of his arrival.

The man put the youngster in the rear passenger seat and he climbed into the front passenger seat.

But as the vehicle pulled away the gang of men, aged between 20 and 30, surrounded the taxi and started to hurl bricks, stones and other missiles at it.

Detective Sergeant George Dunn of Kennington CID said: "This was an apparently motiveless attack that has resulted in very serious injuries to a defenceless three-year-old boy."

The suspects are described as black males, aged in their 20s, with one male aged in his 30s. No further descriptions were available.

Information to DS Dunn at Kennington CID on 020-8649 2411 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

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