A taxi driver knocked down eight men “like a bowling ball” after a row, a court has heard.

Majid Rehman, 28, is accused of deliberately using his taxi to run over six rail workers and two other pedestrians walking on the pavement.

A court heard how Rehman deliberately drove “at some speed” towards the men as they walked on Wood Street near the Millennium Stadium.

Prosecutor Clare Wilks said: “One witness described it as like a bowling ball being aimed at a load of bowling pins.”

The jury was told how Rehman had earlier been parked in a taxi rank at Cardiff train station waiting to collect passengers.

But a row flared between railway workers and the taxi driver, pictured.

Miss Wilks said: “Six of the men were leaving the train station around 7pm after they had been working for Network Rail.

“They were wearing work wear – high visibility orange trousers and tops – and walking away from the train station.

“Along the way some of the group began to argue with Rehman. There was ill feeling between them.

“Eventually they groups left the area. But it seems Rehman wouldn’t let it be.

“He left the taxi rank and drove after the group of six railway workers – according to one witness even going through a red light.”

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