Councillors to boycott meeting to honour 'Taxigate' councillorA former Milton Keynes councillor who allowed a rapist to become a taxi driver could be given one of the town's highest civic honours at a meeting tonight (Wednesday September 14).
But many councillors have voiced their opposition to Liberal Democrat Stuart Burke's nomination as an Alderman and are set to boycott the meetings. Two-thirds of the councillors need to agree for the resolution to be passed.
Mr Burke was chairman of the council's taxi licensing committee when Nadeem Ahmed Kiani was given a private hire licence for Milton Keynes in 2011.
Subhan Shafiq, who was the mayor of Milton Keynes and personally vouched for Kiani as a friend in 2011, resigned in 2014 when the council released a report into the affair and the council revoked Kiani's licence in 2014.
Kiani was convicted of raping and assaulting prostitutes in London in 1994.
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