I was crossing a street in central London recently on my bike. Whilst I was doing so, a black cab started to turn the corner into the road that I was crossing. I was about a third/half way across the road and the cab seemed to have no intention of stopping. Perturbed by his actions, I stopped in the middle of the road and raised my hands as if to ask him what he was doing, and I then quickly moved on.
However, the cabbie took great offence to this and chased me down the street saying that he was going to f'ing stab me. This carried on for about a minute or so with me having to change directions a couple of times. Unfortunately I was too busy trying to get away to take a note of his number plate.
Obviously, I'm thinking about the possibility of accessing CCTV footage; I have told the police about the situation and they've basically said that they'll take no further action because he didn't carry out his threats.
I've been back to the location in question and there is definitely a camera in the exact spot where the incident happened (it's outside a busy pub), and so I'm convinced that there is footage of the incident if there was a need to access it.
I feel bit aggrieved by this because I basically did nothing wrong and it's not acceptable to threaten to kill someone.
Another thing, I'll report it to the relevant black cab complaints people, but I'm not sure they'll care because I don't have a number plate. However, I was wondering if black cabs are logged on a central computer somehow, which gives a record of their location at a certain time (bit of a long shot but worth asking.)
This all happened quite recently and so time is important in terms of accessing images etc.
There wouldn't be any witnesses to what the cabbie was saying (my word against his in court), but then his actions would be consistent with threatening behaviour, which would all be on film.
However, the cabbie took great offence to this and chased me down the street saying that he was going to f'ing stab me. This carried on for about a minute or so with me having to change directions a couple of times. Unfortunately I was too busy trying to get away to take a note of his number plate.
Obviously, I'm thinking about the possibility of accessing CCTV footage; I have told the police about the situation and they've basically said that they'll take no further action because he didn't carry out his threats.
I've been back to the location in question and there is definitely a camera in the exact spot where the incident happened (it's outside a busy pub), and so I'm convinced that there is footage of the incident if there was a need to access it.
I feel bit aggrieved by this because I basically did nothing wrong and it's not acceptable to threaten to kill someone.
Another thing, I'll report it to the relevant black cab complaints people, but I'm not sure they'll care because I don't have a number plate. However, I was wondering if black cabs are logged on a central computer somehow, which gives a record of their location at a certain time (bit of a long shot but worth asking.)
This all happened quite recently and so time is important in terms of accessing images etc.
There wouldn't be any witnesses to what the cabbie was saying (my word against his in court), but then his actions would be consistent with threatening behaviour, which would all be on film.