Hijack victim seeks his good Samaritan
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by Lee Kimber
• A Fishguard haulage company is trying to find the British driver who rescued one of its drivers when he was dumped, bound and gagged after his truck was hijacked outside Milan.
David Thompson, a driver with Peter Harding Freight International, endured a fourhour ordeal after he was beaten up by four hijackers at 4am on 10 June soon after he parked up among forty other trucks.
The gang blindfolded and gagged him, then drove the truck to a warehouse where they emptied the trailer before dumping Thompson in his cab in a lay-by north of Milan. Car drivers ignored his airhorn and calls for help when he worked one hand free—he was only rescued when a British driver stopped for a chat.
"It'd be nice to know who he was," says Thompson's boss Peter Harding, who is hoping the Italian police will identify the driver.
But Harding is furious that the British and Italian governments seem unable to protect drivers and has taken up the matter with his MP.
"It makes a nonsense of the tacho rules because there isn't anywhere you can park," he says. "We're being attacked from all sides: by the police and by the robbers."