A MAN has been charged after a taxi driver was assaulted and racially abused in Weston-super-Mare.
The incident happened on Clevedon Road just before 3pm on Saturday, June 6, during the first day of Summer Fest at the Beach.
Kai Easen, 22, of Haydon Wick in Swindon, has been charged with racially and religiously aggravated actual bodily harm, two further counts of causing actual bodily harm, making threats to kill, and assaulting an emergency worker.
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He has been released on bail and is due to appear at North Somerset Magistrates’ Court on July 28.
A 21-year-old woman from Swindon was also arrested in connection with the incident.
She has since been released on conditional bail so further enquiries can take place.
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