The Thug robbed Peter Barlow of his phone and taxi after assaulting him one day in November 2020 and in doing so sent the alcoholic cab driver on another downward drinking spiral. Peter had stopped briefly for a vape when the thug approached him, asking for a cab ride. Peter told him he had to ring the Street Cars number as to book him and, saying that he hadn't got a phone, the thug demanded his with menaces. Peter tried to stand up to him but was badly beaten up. Well-meaning passer-by Barry Noakes assisted Peter, offering him his hip full flask of whisky which Peter was too weakened to refuse.