Four taxi drivers charged over brawl

10:35am Sunday 30th March 2008

FOUR taxi drivers have been charged with violent disorder following a brawl outside a cab firm office last year.

Police were called to Arcade Taxis, Bolton Road, Blackburn in September last year after a fight started inside the office and then spilled out into the street.

Two men were taken to hospital and the area was sealed off for forensic examination. 10 people were arrested.

Taxi drivers Kasser Ajaz, 33, of Marsden Street, Accrington; Mohammed Khali, 34, of Whalley Street, Blackburn; Asif Saddique, 37, of Greaves Street, Great Harwood and Khalid Mahmood, 46, of Larches, Blackburn have all now been charged with violent disorder.

A fifth man, 19-year-old Jaren Francis Higginson, of Bolton Road, Blackburn, was charged with a public order offence.

All five will appear at Blackburn Magistrates' Court on April 14.