At around 4am on Wednesday 15 February officers received a report from Whiston Hospital that a man had been stabbed when he drove two men from an address on Jean Walk in Kirkby to Dragon Lane in a silver Toyota Prius.
It was reported that after the victim dropped off one of the men at a separate address in Prescot and asked the second man for the fare the man then shouted at the taxi driver and stabbed him in the neck inside his vehicle.