By Luke Cross
lukecross@trinitysouth.co.uk
A CHALFONT St Peter taxi driver was held up at knifepoint in the second of two armed robberies in two nights in Denham.
Robbers targeted cab drivers with knives in Denham Green in Woodhurst Drive on Sunday. April 22 and then just around the corner in Tilehouse Lane on Monday, April 23. Another cabby was robbed at knifepoint in Iver at the end of March.
We have protected the identity of the driver as he is fearul of reprisals.
In the incident on Monday, the driver from Gerrards Cross firm Rely On was led to Tilehouse School by a client and was met by two other men and threatened with a seven-inch, oval-shaped knife.
The 62-year-old father of three, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisals, said: "I just can't understand it – for £120 between three of them, it is not a lot of money."
Another driver from Chalfont Taxis was robbed by two men in Denham at about 10pm on Sunday, while the Iver incident took place in Somerset Way at about 8.45pm and also involved two people.
On Monday at about 10.25pm, one young male, possibly in his late teens or 20 years of age with dark hair, wearing a blue top, jeans and trainers walked into the taxi office at Gerrards Cross train station.
The passenger was driven in an unmarked silver Volkswagen Passat taxi to just outside Tilehouse School, where he met his accomplices.
The driver said: "That night when I got home I had the shakes and I didn't sleep very well – everything kept going through my mind."
As the driver pulled up at the total garage on the A412, Denham Green, he put the light on to collect his fare, the passenger door flung open and the customer was pulled out.
At the driver was distracted, a third man opened the driver's door, pulled the keys from the ignition and showed a seven-inch knife.
The driver said: "He said 'Come on, give me the money, I've got the keys, I have got the knife.' Basically I was thinking what the hell is happening.
The robbers threw the keys into the darkness and ran away and the driver was briefly helped by a mystery man walking his dog.Witnesses should contact DS Liz Tate on 0845 8 505 505.
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