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  • Indian cabbie vilified, assaulted by builders

    11/12/2009 10:40:51 PM PST · by myknowledge · 3 replies · 518+ views
    Courier Mail ^ | November 13, 2009 | Tristan Swanwick
    AN Indian student was racially vilified and assaulted by a pair of construction workers while working part-time as a cab driver - but both will walk free. Dean James Cooper, 20, and Robert Lee Kleyn, 26, pleaded guilty in a Brisbane District Court charged with assault occasioning bodily harm in company and stealing. The court was told the pair had been drinking heavily at a building industry function in June 2008 when they hailed a taxi driven by an Indian national living in Australia on a student visa. Once in the cab they began hurling racist abuse at the man,...