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Taxi driver who fled Southport attack has licence stripped
Key takeaways
- Gary Poland said he could "still hear the screams" of the children he failed to help.
- Gary Poland had driven killer Axel Rudakubana to the Hart Space dance studio on 29 July 2024, where the 17-year-old walked into a Taylor Swift-themed dance workshop and began stabbing children at random.
- Dashboard camera footage, played to the public inquiry into the attack, showed how Poland drove away as screaming children streamed out of the building in what he described as being "like a stampede for their lives".
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Gary Poland said he could "still hear the screams" of the children he failed to help. The taxi driver who fled the scene of the Southport stabbing attack and waited 50 minutes before calling 999 has had his licence stripped.
Gary Poland had driven killer Axel Rudakubana to the Hart Space dance studio on 29 July 2024, where the 17-year-old walked into a Taylor Swift-themed dance workshop and began stabbing children at random.
Dashboard camera footage, played to the public inquiry into the attack, showed how Poland drove away as screaming children streamed out of the building in what he described as being "like a stampede for their lives".
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