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Taxi driver dies of Covid-19 after a fare-dodger spat at him and said 'I've got coronavirus and now you've got it too'

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A taxi driver died with coronavirus after being spat at by a fare-dodger who claimed to have the disease, a family friend has said.

Trevor Belle, 61, died in the Royal London Hospital on April 18, having tested positive for Covid-19. Several weeks earlier, the east Londoner had been spat at by a passenger who owed him £9, according to his friend Damian Briggs.

The passenger reportedly told him: "I've got the coronavirus and now you've got it too." After the incident in Stratford on March 22, Mr Belle began to feel unwell with symptoms of coronavirus.

Mr Briggs explained: "A few days later he got rushed into hospital, he spent three weeks battling it and unfortunately didn't make it to the end." Get the latest updates from across Greater

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