'Remorseful' woman avoids jail for racial abuse of taxi driver in Cork

Her defence solicitor told the court: “She has written a letter of apology.”

Sergeant Gearóid Davis said at Cork District Court that the two friends of the accused woman had no issue paying the fare and leaving the area without causing any problem. File picture: Denis Minihane

A taxi driver was racially abused as a “Paki” and a “black bastard” by a drunken woman who had an issue with the fare being charged.

Sergeant Gearóid Davis said at Cork District Court that the two friends of the accused woman had no issue paying the fare and leaving the area without causing any problem but that 27-year-old Shannon Frayne of Dunmore Gardens, Knocknaheeny, Cork, engaged in the abusive behaviour.