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If a not guilty verdict doesn't get your license back there are no guarantees for a quashed conviction. As CC says civil basis is not the same as criminal

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Not sure I agree with that.

The fella conviction was quashed and the CPS didn't pursue another trial, so he is 100% not guilty of the offence(s) that he was charged with.

However until we see the full judgement we will not know the full story, and despite my reservations at times about the CPS they must have had enough evidence to mount a case strong enough to take it to full trial.

And if that evidence was so pi** poor then the High Court wouldn't have allowed a re-trial.

I suspect there was a case to answer, and that case could be enough to allow the PCO to not allow him back in a London cab.

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IDFIMH

That's the system we have, he's been cleared of ALL charges, if the pco want to play the burden of proof game then it'll go to a magistrates court on appeal who will hopefully judge it as the court of appeal did.

As for the CPs, you must have more faith in them than I had, I just remember lawyers fresh from qualifying wanting to get out, or those that were so crap no private practice would have them.

You may find that even though he's been cleared of all charges, his name may well be on police radar if not the Register for a long time. I know.

When I was MD of a bus company one of my drivers was interviewed by the police one day for an alleged "touching of a schoolgirl. It turned out when he was a driver on LT, a lady employee accused him of rape. No charges were ever brought against him, but the police let me know he was on their system.

Surely them taking his clothes would have proved he's had no contact with the women, I also hope they took the woman clothes to make sure his DNA weren't on any of the woman's clothes?

As some of you old members we had a case in Mansfield when an innocent cabbie was nearly given a 6 year stretch because of the ineptness of the CPS.

I'm glad justice prevailed on the case in London and the man was found innocent. Will he go back to the cabs?? I wouldn't if something like that happened.

It might have proved he did have contact with her, but just didn't rape her.

Those are the questions we don't yet know the answer to, and clearly that would be something the PCO would take into account.

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IDFIMH

I was agreeing with you until you mentioned the PCO.