Two ‘extremely drunk, entitled louts’ have been jailed for life today for the ‘ferocious and brutal’ murder of a taxi driver.
Ali Asghar, 39, suffered catastrophic head injuries in a brutal attack after he asked Martin Treacy, 18, to stop eating a chicken burger and chips in the Uber.
Treacy then started swearing at the taxi driver in the back of the Mercedes while he sat beside his friend Connor McPartland, 20.
The pair of louts were travelling to a Halloween party on October 30 where they planned to meet some girls at a nightclub.
After Mr Asghar stopped at a petrol station in Rochdale, prosecutors say the two men then unleashed a ‘ferocious, brutal and totally unforgiving attack’ on Mr Asghar.
They punched and kicked him in the head, before pushing him over and hitting his head on the wheel of his own car. He died two weeks later.
The court also heard they were frustrated by mistakenly entering the wrong address into the Uber app which sent them a mile away from their…
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