‘Attack? I was looking after my girlfriend’

A taxi passenger accused of knocking out a cabbie claimed he was protecting his girlfriend after the driver pushed her face first onto the floor. Sam Chorley, 22, allegedly beat Andrew Okubadejo unconscious after he tried to fine Rosie Faulkner for vomiting in the back of his cab. Mr Okubadejo, 59, was left with a 4cm deep laceration to his forehead and another cut on the back of his head after the attack in Helena Road, Walthamstow, east London. But…