Let off for mugger caught by hero taxi driver

A teenage gang member who leapt through the window of a black cab ‘like a gazelle’ to rob the driver was spared jail. The 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named, grabbed the cash after his accomplice tried to distract taxi driver Gary Cox by asking him the fare to Victoria Station. Mr Cox told the Old Bailey his ‘sixth sense’ was alerted when the bogus customer peered down at the moneybag sitting in his cab’s footwell on 3 December last…