Taxi Driver Online

Yorkshire Post

February 8, 2007

HEADLINE: Death driver's licence plea fails

A taxi driver who knocked down and killed travel agent Stephanie Hammill, who leapt out a car being driven by an abductor, has failed to get his licence back. Mohammed Ashiq was stripped of his licence last year after being found guilty of driving on without stopping to help the stricken 20-year-old. He was given an 18-month driving ban and ordered to carry out 200 hours' community service.

Stephanie was fleeing from a Mercedes car driven by Ioannis Revenikiotis, a Greek national, who last year was ordered to be detained under the Mental Health Act after he was found to have kidnapped her and caused her death. Stephanie was dragged 25 yards along Batley Road, Wakefield, underneath Mr Ashiq's Toyota Carina. Yesterday Mr Ashiq, who is in his 50s and from Wakefield, applied for a Hackney carriage licence but this was rejected during a private hearing of Wakefield Council's regulatory and appeals committee. He has the right to appeal against this decision to magistrates within 21 days.
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