Sheffield taxi shooting bears similarities to fatal gun attack which left cabbie dead on nearby street

The shooting of a Sheffield taxi last night happened on a street close to where a city cabbie was gunned down behind the wheel.
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Emergency services were called to Margate Drive, Pitsmoor, at 9.30pm yesterday after a taxi was shot at.

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The taxi is at the centre of a police cordon in place this morning, where a damaged window can been seen along with shattered glass on the ground next to the car.

Margate Drive, Sheffield (Pic: Dan Hayes)Margate Drive, Sheffield (Pic: Dan Hayes)
Margate Drive, Sheffield (Pic: Dan Hayes)

A man is being held in police custody on suspicion of firearm offences and police enquiries are under way to find the passengers in the taxi at the time of the shooting.

It is not yet known whether anyone was injured.

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In 2007 a taxi driver was shot dead as he drove his cab along nearby Scott Road, Pitsmoor.

Younis Khan, aged 53, was gunned down in what South Yorkshire Police claimed was a revenge attack.

David Cohen, from Upperthorpe, was jailed for 31 years and his younger brother Ashley, from Oughtibridge, was sentenced to 33 years - the longest sentences ever handed down in Sheffield at that time – after being convicted of murder.

The brothers, who denied the charge and continue to protest their innocence from behind bars, were convicted on a 'joint enterprise' basis in that they were accused of planning the shooting rather than firing the gun.

They were accused of organising the execution in revenge for Mr Khan’s son, Imran, firing a gun at David’s house.