Man jailed for 30 years for chilling taxi driver murder

A man who killed a taxi driver while trying to commit the ‘perfect murder’ has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Colin Cheetham (right) was sentenced yesterday at Nottingham Crown Court for the murder of Stuart Ludlam, a father-of-three from Derbyshire.

Cheetham, a loner and gun fanatic, shot Mr Ludlam (right, with sons Jonathan and Matthew) dead after calling for a taxi at Cromford rail station on 17 September last year.

He was arrested ten days later after police traced a mobile phone top-up card he used to call the taxi firm.

Justice Alistair MacDuff said Cheetham, 66, was an “evil” man “lacking any sense of humanity”.