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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