THESE are the horrific injuries a vile passenger inflicted on an innocent taxi driver after battering him senseless and leaving him for dead.

The attack left Steve Antony Williams, 57, with a broken hearing aid, shattered glass in his eye, deteriorating eyesight and drenched in blood.

Steve was on shift for Saron Taxis in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales, when the "totally unprovoked attack" took place.

Recalling the events, Steve told how he picked up three people after a local company’s Christmas do on the night that nearly took his life.

The cabbie had dropped one man off near Llanelli before asking the two others in the cab – a man and a woman – where they wanted to go.

After repeatedly asking the male passenger where they were headed, Steve stopped the car to check a map on his phone.

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But to his horror it was then that Steve was subjected to an attack the like of which he had never experienced before, Wales Online reports.

Recalling the barbaric moment, Steve said: “All of a sudden he opened the door, got out and walked round to the front of the car.

"He then opened the driver door and started hitting me.

“It was totally unexpected. I’m used to customers gobbing off but to actually hit me is a different matter."

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It was then the female passenger got out and tried to stop the feral attack – but the man went berserk and hit Steve several times in the face.

Shaken to his core, Steve said: “I had blood pouring down my face and I was thinking ‘if I don’t leave he’s going to kill me’, so I drove away leaving the pair of them in the middle of the road.”

Steve sped straight to Ammanford police station and was comforted by his stepson and his boss, they took him to A&E in Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen.

He told The Sun Online how his injuries were so gruesome his horrified friends and family thought his eye was "hanging out".

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Taliesin Evans De Almeida, 32, previously of Genwen Road, Llanelli, was later arrested and charged with grievous bodily harm in the senseless December 22, 2020 attack.

He pleaded not guilty but was found guilty by a jury at a trial held at Swansea Crown Court in January.

I have horrendous nightmares

Since the menacing attack mortified Steve has tried to move on but had to take time off to recover from the horrific ordeal.

He told The Sun Online: "I have horrendous nightmares.

"I have a heavily haemorrhaged eye and a permanent scar where he hit me.

"I honestly thought he was going to kill me – I thought I was going to die.”

He noted how his sleep patterns have been disturbed and his eye sight heavily deteriorated since the vile attack.

He even had to take a month off work after being sent to a specialist eye hospital in Bristol to get debris taken out of his eye.

Defiant

But he remains defiant, saying he has carried on working because "I believe you have to face your anxieties."

De Almeida was sentenced at Swansea Crown Court on Friday, March 4.

He was jailed for 10 months for the attack and one month, to be served concurrently, for criminal damage.

He was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £156 within six months of his release.

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