Russell Howarth when he was an anti-Uber campaigner
Who exactly is Russell Howarth?
He’s best known as the man who made citizens arrests while campaigning against the UberX ride sharing service when it was setting up in 2014.
But he’s also a bankrupt thanks to a seemingly innocuous traffic accident outside Sydney’s exclusive Ivy nightclub and a court case gone wrong.
Born in Leicester in the UK, Mr Howarth began to court a media profile in about 2008 as the green-friendly hire car business he founded was taking off.
Now 48, he stated on the website of his former limousine business that he is “a former police officer with the London Metropo…
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