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Out of control barman who threatened to slash his wife's throat with kitchen knife denied private hire licence

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/1628 ... r_licence/

AN “out of control” barman who threatened to slash his wife’s throat with a kitchen knife had his dream of becoming an private hire driver crushed.

Glasgow City Council’s Licensing and Regulatory Committee did not deem Jagraj Singh a fit and proper person to be driving a private hire car in the city.

Councillors heard how he has been sentenced to a 100 hours community payback order and two years supervision the terrifying incident on New Year’s Eve.

Mr Singh told the committee he was stressed out at work and decided to blow off some steam to bring in 2018.

According to the police report he said: “Do you want me to cut your throat, you bitch?”

It caused his wife and children to shriek in terror and call her father, who called the police.

A councillor called it “quite disturbing”.

However, Mr Singh said: “I was previously working as a bar man for 12 years and it was taken over with new ownership so I had left for another job, the job didn’t suit me.

“I was a bit upset, my cousin had come up from London and had been drinking – I don’t really drink – and on New Year’s Eve I decided to drink and went out of control.”

Mr Singh said he just happened to have the knife in his hand because he was “cutting rolls”.

Apparently, his drinking was a break in a six year spell of abstinence due to an alcoholic past.

He told the committee he is currently working in a restaurant in the West End and helping his brother in a laundrette.

Alex Wilson, committee convener, said: “Whatever you said you were using the knife for, you did put your wife and children into fear and alarm – which is quite disturbing, to do that to a family member.

“So, what would you do in terms of the public?”

Rhiannon Spear said: “My concern is linking this with your circumstance, being a taxi driver is an incredibly stressful job.

“You will have to deal with incredibly drunk people in your car with the smell of alcohol.”

Dunno if I'd class it as a dream job....I Can think of a lot of other jobs I'd be dreaming about before being a PH driver.



If the Legal profession can't tell the difference between PH and TAXI driver what hope the rest of the public.



And no. you don't have to deal with incredibly drunk people in your car as your under no obligation to take incredibly drunk people anywhere.

I had to refuse one on Saturday. A group of 6 people and they carried one girl to the car. They stood her up and I could tell she was struggling to stay upright and her eyes were glazed over. Her friends were not happy but in the end they agreed that I was not taking her. The rest of the journey they were fine, telling me that not only was she drunk but she had been on cocaine as well.

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Grandad,

A dream?

Really?

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