Indian cabbie attacker in Australia jailed

In a swift action, an Australian was sentenced to three months in jail, after he pleaded guilty of racially abusing and assaulting an Indian taxi driver in the Victorian city of Ballarat today.

Paul John Brogden, 48, from Western Victoria, who was arrested after he abused and assaulted the Indian early this morning, was sentenced after he pleaded guilty to threatening to kill the victim.The taxi driver Satheesh Thatipamula, 24, was abused and assaulted and his vehicle damaged by Brogden, who believed the driver had taken him the wrong way.

When you me off I will kill you, you mother fking Indian, I will kill you, you fking Indian bastard, he allegedly told the Indian. The driver, however, did not receive any major injuries.

Brogden’s lawyer, Philip Lynch, said he had consumed so much alcohol he could not remember the events of the night.

Source: ptinews

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