Killer Taxi Driver in Forklift Training Bid
A taxi driver who mowed down a Black Country teenager and dragged him under his cab has applied for a forklift truck course.
The police broke the news to victim Scott Poll’s parents, Arthur and Sharon, who say they are “disgusted.”
Ghulam Hussain, who was convicted of manslaughter in 2006, has also applied for weekend release.
Scott, 17, from Lincoln Road, Stone Cross, West Bromwich, died in February 2006 when he was run over by Hussain’s taxi and dragged beneath it for more than a mile along six streets.
His body was later found near the Manor House pub in Hall Green Road, West Bromwich.
Hussain, a 45-year-old married father of two, of Grange Road, West Bromwich, was convicted at Wolverhampton Crown Court after denying murder and death by dangerous driving but pleading guilty to manslaughter.
He was jailed for three years, which was later extended to five years after a High Court judge ruled that the the original term was “unduly lenient.”
