Race rant of black cab customer

An irate customer called a black cab driver a ‘n****r’ and knocked out one of his front teeth when a cashpoint machine swallowed his card, a court heard. Daniel Wood, 28, cracked the partition in cabbie Vernon Smith’s car before repeatedly punching him, Southwark Crown Court was told. John Coates, prosecuting, said Mr Smith had picked up Wood from an address in southwest London at around 8.20pm on December 16 last year. The cab had been destined for Shaftesbury Avenue…