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There used to be a schizophrenic driving hackneys round here but there were problems and lots of them the trouble is once theyve got a badge it takes a lot of removing again. thankfully he was eventually taken off the road. He was supposedly on medication to control the condition BUT having seen and heard about some of the things he did I am not convinced that schizophrenics on medication are safe !

Whatever happened to better safe not sorry

Are we talking about the RMT and Dissy, or the guy who's trying for his badge?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSdTNTgJ ... re=related

The video.

Say's the man with 12 personalities!

Killer removed from taxi course

The man had been detained under the mental health act
A paranoid schizophrenic killer will not be allowed to study to become a black-cab driver following protests from taxi drivers.

The man, who cannot be named, strangled his wife in 2000 and was jailed indefinitely for manslaughter in 2001.

Moves to allow him to train jeopardised the industry's reputation, the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association (LTDA) said.

Transport for London (TfL) said he was removed from the Knowledge course because of his criminal history.

Hundreds of cabbies blocked streets outside the public carriage office in protest over the decision to allow the 38-year-old to take the black taxi exams.

Shock waves

He had been detained under the Mental Health Act after killing his wife and released after the parole board assessed he was no longer a risk to society, which left him free to pursue work.

He has been working as a unlicensed minicab driver.

Bob Oddy, LTDA General Secretary said: "The original decision to accept [the man] onto the Knowledge sent shock waves through our trade.

"The united trade demonstration and crisis meeting achieved the desired result and this Public Carriage Office u-turn will go some way to restoring public confidence in London's world renowned taxi service."

Jeroen Weimar, Chief Operating Officer at TfL said it had announced plans to tighten the guidelines for licensing taxi and private hire drivers in the Capital.

In future, taxi and private hire licences will not be granted to applicants who have been convicted for serious or violent offences, unless there are exceptional mitigating circumstances.

'Productive lives'

"This was a unique case and we fully understand the concerns of everybody in the cab trade at the implications for public safety and confidence," Mr Weimar said.

"I am grateful to the LTDA for making clear how strongly working taxi drivers felt about this issue.

"The independent review made it clear that this individual's wider criminal history meant he should not progress with the Knowledge or be licensed by us."

Earlier this month, a spokesman for the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health said it could not comment on an individual case.

But he said: "The vast majority of people with an illness like schizophrenia can still work and can still lead decent, productive lives.

"Having a condition like schizophrenia - you can recover entirely from it - should not in itself preclude someone from working."

That's as maybe, but.........



killing somebody certainly should exclude him from this trade

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

How would you know someone had recovered from it??....it would'nt be until the murdered their next victim that you discovered that they had'nt recovered from it at all....best err on the side of caution in these cases..

If in doubt..Dont...

Only one Dissy, and it's 100% LTDA.

Unlike some others who chop and change from association to union to association, I'll stick with the best.

Has the Railway folks won anything yet? Toilets? Recognition? Cheap away day tickets?

No problem, leave it to the LTDA as usual.