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Severe warning for Glasgow private hire driver who ran red lights

https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glas ... e-29790525

Mr Hossain was allowed to keep working as a private hire driver after licensing chiefs decided to grant him a one-year extension.

A private hire driver who police witnessed running two sets of red lights has been warned by licensing chiefs.

Monowar Hossain has been granted a restricted one-year licence extension, despite failing to declare his conviction.

Councillors on the city’s licensing committee decided to issue a “severe warning” to the driver over his future conduct.

They were told by Police Scotland that Mr Hossain, who applied for a three-year extension, had been fined £300 in May and received five points on his licence over the incident.

An officer said: “A police mobile patrol operating on a street in Glasgow witnessed the applicant drive a private hire car through two sets of traffic lights set at red.

“The first set of traffic lights was part of a junction and the second set of traffic lights… were situated at a pedestrian crossing.”

He added that during the incident, which happened in October 2022, the driver did not have customers in his vehicle.

Mr Hossain handed the committee a written submission in his defence as, he said, his English was “not good”.

He added he had been driving in the city for eight years without any problems.

A council official told councillors that the applicant’s conviction “was not reported to the licensing section”.

Drivers are required to report convictions as a condition of their licence.

Hope passengers never have to ask him to explain a fare, or a route, or there's a dispute about something or other

Of course, and as Sussex said a few weeks ago, there's a difference between legal complexities and court procedures etc and day to day conversational stuff. But this was just about providing a defence to a licensing committee for an open and shut case. And explaining fares, driving stuff and licensing minutiae to passengers can be quite complex.

Of course, often the type of people who you try to explain the likes of fares too are the kind of people who won't pay the slightest bit of attention to what you say anyway