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David James Wilkie (9 July 1949 – 30 November 1984) was a Welsh taxi driver who was killed during the miners' strike in the United Kingdom, when two striking miners dropped a concrete block from a footbridge onto his taxi whilst he was driving a strike-breaking miner to work. The attack caused a widespread revulsion at the extent of violence ...
BBC News. 2 May 2024. Updated 3 May 2024. A photograph of a taxi driver killed by miners during the strike of the mid-1980s has been revealed for the first time. The picture of David Wilkie was...
The picture of David Wilkie was taken days before a concrete block was dropped from an overhead bridge by striking miners on to his car. The 35-year-old was driving a working miner to a pit at...
R v Hancock [1985] UKHL 9 is an English legal decision of the highest court setting out the relationship between foresight of consequences and intention in cases of murder. It refers to the case of the killing of David Wilkie.
Two South Wales miners have been jailed for life for the murder of taxi driver David Wilkie during the miners' strike last November. Mr Wilkie was killed when a block of concrete was...
Welsh cab driver David Wilkie, with his daughter, who was killed after a breeze block was thrown at his vehicle from an overhead bridge near Rhymney Bridge on the A465.
Two Welsh NUM activists were jailed for life in 1985 for the murder of taxi driver David Wilkie during the miners’ strike. He was killed when the two striking miners threw a concrete block off a bridge as Wilkie bravely drove a working miner to a pit in South Wales in November 1984.
