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PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 1:18 pm 
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West Lindsey bars sex case taxi driver

A West Lindsey taxi driver who is accused of sexual assault has been banned from operating in the district.

The driver, who cannot be identified, was due to appear before a recent meeting of West Lindsey District Council’s Taxi and Licensing Sub-committee for the committee to consider if he was “fit and proper” to hold a council hackney carriage/private hire driver licence.

“A prosecution for sexual assault was pending with Greater Manchester Police, and Manchester City Council had raised concerns that he was continuing to work and that he was plying for hire illegally where he was not licensed to do so,” said the minutes of the meeting, which was held in private.

“The Sub Committee considered that not only was the applicant not a fit and proper person to hold a hackney carriage drivers licence, considered that revocation of his licence on grounds of his licence should be immediate on the grounds of public safety,” it said.

However, the October 23 meeting granted licences to two drivers who hid convictions for driving offences.

One said he made “a silly mistake” when he committed a driving offence and he made “a genuine mistake” when filling out his licence application form.

Granting the licence, the sub committee said it “takes convictions for driving under the influence of alcohol very seriously” but it was “an isolated conviction, it did not occur whilst operating a taxi,” and the driver has completed a driving rehabilitation course.

Another taxi driver said he had made “a genuine mistake” to say he had no criminal convictions as he “did not think driving convictions constituted criminal offences.

But the council accepted the man was ‘fit and proper’ as “the last conviction was five years ago and his life has moved on.”

This week, WLDC told the Rasen Mail the sex case driver does not have a West Lindsey area address..

Before the ban, the banned driver would have plied his trade in West Lindsey but also have could have accepted private hire bookings which may have taken him outside the district too. In the last 4/5 years, 2 or 3 allegations ‘along similar concerns’ have been raised,” said the council statement.

“The whole process of taxi licensing is in the main about protecting the public. Therefore if public safety is being compromised, the members of the sub-committee sometimes have to make difficult decisions and we have demonstrated that we will do that,” added committee chair Coun Jessie Milne.

source: http://www.marketrasenmail.co.uk/news/l ... -1-6398994

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 2:48 pm 
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here's some I found;

Birmingham

Mohammed Saeed Ben Mana

Pleaded guilty to 13 offences at Birmingham Magistrates Court on 23rd May 2013. Two offences under the Fraud Act, one of failing to disclose to the licensed operator of Castle Cars that he was no longer the owner of a licensed hackney carriage and one of possessing a revoked Shropshire hackney carriage licence for use in a fraud, falsely representing that the vehicle was a licensed hackney carriage. Five offences of driving without valid insurance. Three offences of acting as a private hire driver without a current licence and three offences of knowingly using a vehicle as a hackney carriage without a current licence.

Penalty 12 month community order with 80 hours unpaid work – Fraud offences with no separate penalty for Local Government offences & 3 months disqualification for Road Traffic offences

Prosecution costs £200 (£1079 requested)

Fraud Act 2006, Road Traffic Act 1988 & Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976

Newcastle upon Tyne

Syed Mehdi Manafi (12.11.52) Westbourne Avenue, Gateshead –

Illegal Ply for Hire/No insurance (Gateshead Hackney Carriage Driver) –

Prosecuted Fine £165. Costs £284, Victim Surcharge £20. Licence endorsed 6 penalty points.



Shamol Uddin (21.04.77) Lanercost Drive, Newcastle –

Illegal Ply for Hire/No insurance (Northumberland hackney carriage working for Blueline) –

Prosecuted Fine £150, Costs £250, Victim Surcharge £20, Licence endorsed 6 penalty points.



Brian Johnson (27.08.71) Legion Grove, Newcastle –

Illegal Ply for Hire (Durham licensed Hackney Carriage working for Blueline) –

Prosecuted Fine £230, Costs £339.50, Victim Surcharge £23.


Hamed Karimi Amirkiasar (20.09.79), Redgrave Close, Gateshead –

Illegal Ply for Hire/No insurance (Northumberland licensed Hackney Carriage Driver working for Blueline) –

Prosecuted Fine £112, Costs £738, Victim Surcharge £20.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 1:06 pm 
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where's the outrage?

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captain cab wrote:
where's the outrage?


From who #-o #-o #-o #-o on what grounds ??????????????????

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trotskys twin wrote:

From who #-o #-o #-o #-o on what grounds ??????????????????


all drivers licensed in other areas illegally operating elsewhere

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From who #-o #-o #-o #-o on what grounds ??????????????????


Outrage because if this driver is guilty the council in West Lindsey have licensed a person who lives 110 miles away, and is allegedly a sex pest, this kind of thing has had the potential to have occurred well before now, and finally it has.

Irrespective, all those other drivers, illegally plying with out of town taxis remain for the most part untouched, and without insurance.

Do we have to wait for a death or murder?

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Outrage because if this driver is guilty the council in West Lindsey have licensed a person who lives 110 miles away,

Are you suggesting that a Council should only be able to license drivers who live within their own district?

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There's plenty of London drivers living 70 miles out of London in New Romney.
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grandad wrote:
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Outrage because if this driver is guilty the council in West Lindsey have licensed a person who lives 110 miles away,

Are you suggesting that a Council should only be able to license drivers who live within their own district?


I think he's suggesting that the council should license drivers that intend to work the area they are licensed in, not too much to ask really

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toots wrote:

I think he's suggesting that the council should license drivers that intend to work the area they are licensed in, not too much to ask really


yeah, this chap for example - if West Lindsey license him, he really should work there - not 110 miles away in Manchester

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captain cab wrote:
toots wrote:

I think he's suggesting that the council should license drivers that intend to work the area they are licensed in, not too much to ask really


yeah, this chap for example - if West Lindsey license him, he really should work there - not 110 miles away in Manchester

That's ok then, just checking. I know that some Councils, even Rutland, ask drivers where they intend to work. But the question is totally pointless if they don't actually check this out afterwards and then do something about it if they find that the driver is not working the area that they say that they are working. Is there anything that they can do legally to stop drivers doing it?

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