This is Leicestershire --A 10-year-old girl was left upset after an angry taxi driver said he hoped she got cancer.
The insult came after the driver went into a rant after an observation by the child's mother about where he was parked
Holly Jacobson was with her mum, Kaley, outside the accident and emergency department of Leicester Royal Infirmary when the driver asked Kaley if she wanted a taxi.
The 35-year-old told him that her husband was about to arrive to pick them up, and offered her opinion that taxis should not wait in the drop-off parking spaces outside the hospital.
Kaley said that after a "long rant" from the taxi driver, he told her: "I hope your daughter gets cancer."
Kaley, of Leicester, had taken Holly to hospital at 7pm on Sunday after she hurt her leg.
She said: "We left the hospital at 9.30pm and the taxi was in the drop-off space – there had also been two there when we arrived and it had been difficult to stop safely.
"The driver asked if we wanted a taxi and I said we were being picked up. I then said that since there were only two drop-off spaces, taxis should park elsewhere.
"I thought it was an innocent comment. I didn't want to have an argument with anyone. I just wanted to get home and get Holly to bed, but he started off on a long rant.
"I started to walk away and then he said: 'I hope your daughter gets cancer'. He looked right at her, then at me, and said it. I was shocked.
"My little girl is 10, so she knows what it means and she's the smallest, sweetest thing.
"She was really upset afterwards. She said later, 'I won't get cancer, will I Mummy?'
"It was just such a horrible thing to say. I've never had anything like that happen to me."
Holly's dad, Ben, 38, arrived moments later and saw immediately that his wife and child were upset.
He said: "Kaley and Holly were clearly quite flustered and the taxi driver was there, giving them looks.
"My wife said what he had told them. I calmly confronted him about it.
"I asked him how he could saying something like that, so outrageous. I told him I could never say anything like that to anyone else's family, but he then went off on a tirade about how he could park for up to 20 minutes where he was. It made me feel very sad."
The taxi driver is self-employed and at the time was sub-contracted by Club Taxis, in Braunstone Frith, Leicester.
The company said it would no longer be sub-contracting any work to the driver but declined to comment further. Reported by This is 19 hours ago.