The taxi driver responsible for the little boy’s murder Malakye Hall He was sentenced to 9 years and 9 months in prison: The 7-year-old boy had left the house to look for his mother, who had left him alone in the dark to go to his partner. This was a story that particularly shocked British public opinion because of the sad fate of the little boy leaving home in the middle of the night to look for the woman who was sentenced last month to three years in prison for negligence.
The events occurred on August 11, 2020 in Bradford, West Yorkshire. It was just after 10pm when 32-year-old Mohsin Hussain, driving his black Toyota Auris, plowed into the child at full speed on Manchester Road at the junction with St Stephens Road. The little boy died shortly after being taken to hospital, where he arrived in a distressed condition due to his very serious injuries Injuries brought back to the head.
During the investigation, police determined that the taxi driver was traveling at 53 or 54 miles per hour when he hit the child, in a 30 mile per hour speed limit zone. Not only that, because Mohsin Hussain had not only exceeded the speed limit by almost double, but was also under the influence narcotic substances. What made matters worse was that the license he held had expired a month before the tragic accident: Nevertheless, the 32-year-old continued to perform his duties as if nothing had happened. For all these reasons, Bradford Crown Court decided to sentence the man, a father of three, to 9 years and 9 months in prison.
Last month, the child’s mother, 33-year-old Wendy Hall, was also sentenced by the court: she must serve three years behind bars for negligence towards her son, who was left at home in the middle of the night without electricity or gas.
At yesterday’s sentencing, Malakye’s sisters made a heartbreaking statement in court accusing Hussain of robbing the child of his future. “We will miss watching him transform into the man he would become. We were robbed of our childhood with him, but also of our future life as adults.” “The punishment of living our lives without Malakye will never end, for us it is like a life sentence,” they added, “we have to To live the rest of our lives without Malakye, our brother who was also tragically taken away from us “soon”.