A GROUP of taxi passengers who carried out a "sustained attack on a vulnerable victim" have been handed suspended sentences. Scott Bryant entered guilty pleas to one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, one of possessing cannabis, and one of making off without payment. And Gary Allen admitted one count each of making off without payment and assault occasioning actual bodily harmThey had assaulted a taxi driver, causing him actual bodily harm, in an incident in Hereford on June 30, 2024 and made off without paying their £8.40 taxi fare, magistrates heard from prosecutor Camila Toscano. ALSO READ:Liam Allen had also recklessly or intentionally damaged an internal taxi dashcam belonging to the driver, while Scott Bryant was found to be in possession of cannabis on the same date. Liam Allen, 24, of Turbit Close, Ross-on-Wye, Gary Allen, of London Road, Gloucester, and Bryant, 31, of Wisteria Way, Churchdown, were handed an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to pay compensation of £825 to the taxi driver and prosecution costs of £85.