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A 25-YEAR-OLD woman was raped after getting into a car she believed was a taxi outside a Glasgow hotel.
The victim left Cube nightclub alone just before 3am yesterday.
She walked to the Radisson Hotel in Argyle Street, where she asked a crowd of people to call her a taxi.
A short time later, a blue car arrived and the victim got in, believing it to be her cab.
But the driver took her to a tenement building around 10 minutes away from the city centre.
He raped the terrified woman before taking her back to the Radisson Hotel at around 4.30am.

In October, a 29-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in a vehicle she believed was a taxi after a night out in Glasgow.

Not sure what the answer is to these type of incidents, apart from maybe cutting off the knackers of the chap when convicted.

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Shocking - thats what, four or five alone here in Glasgow in the past year??

Better signage may be an answer, door signage, roof light.

OBVIOUSLY the current small front plate, large rear, tiny side plates are not enough for folk to identify a PHC.

Charlie

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I have to disagree Charlie, I think whats needed is for every female in the Glasgow area to take advantage of the new free eye tests available on the NHS

Private hire in this area are, in my opinion, easily identifiable

It is a fact that late at night, when worse for the bevy, people take risks be it unprotected sex, bravado or accepting lifts from strangers (I am not suggesting this was the case here)

Nearby East Dunbartonshire had up until recently small internal plates & Argyll & Clyde still have them and as far as I know there have been no problems

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Still stick by my original post, better signage needed - which would benefit residents of Glasgow and the vast number of vulnerable visitors.

This sort of thing is happening too often up here, and being drunk and female isn't an open invitation to be violated up a close by some t*** who can't afford a £10 sugar frosty

(That last line is not a dig aimed at you btw Renfrewshire Driver)

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The views and comments of Charlie are virtual only - as this is t'internet boys and girls!

No running to the bosses - nobody likes a grass!

It's harsh but its only the girls own fault for getting into the car. No woman deserves what happened to her though and of course people like the offender should never be allowed to step foot in society.

Also as far as recognising PHV in Glasgow a lot of the cars have branding on the back windshield such as the Hampden Cars vehicles.

I can sympathise with how the poor woman feels; but attacks like this are far too regular and its always the Taxi Trade that get the bad press even when we aren't at fault in the slightest.

In this area, we have crests on the rear doors, Hack and PH, roof signs - Hacks illuminate, badge must be displayed in vehicle and back plates. This isn't worth a stuff though if on-line auction sites still insist on allowing Taxi signage and equipment, meters, top signs etc. to be sold to anyone who wants to bid. Its too easy for someone to make a car look like a genuine cab!

Yes, genuine cabbies will occasionally have the need to sell such equipment; but do it on sites like this, or through trade press where people can be checked out; not on e-bay where you are making things too easy for the wicked out there.

AND always report any car that you are suspicious of - its easily checked; the Police can check the Insurance for one thing and take it off the road immediately if its not right.... you might save another poor woman from enduring this kind of event.

Oh thats where I put my dummy

the actual report was that she thought she got into a private hire vehicle,not a taxi, as an x ph operator i agree more should be done to make ph cars more apparant,dundee ph have no singage only the plate on the rear bumper,every weekend you see people trying to flag private cars

I quite agree, and in time it will be so IMO.

Sad thing is that until such time many women will suffer the same fate.

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Don't expect Glasgow City Council to do anything in a hurry

It has been over a year now since the Police asked them to take action against unlicensed limos & still nothing

Going back to the matter in hand, I have seen unplated cars operating in Glasgow with the private hire company logos on the back windows.....whats that all about ?

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As far as I'm aware the council issue plates there and then from the City Chambers, so unplated cars shouldn't be allowed in my eyes.

I remember in recent times you could run about unplated if the car was a Substitute Vehicle (after it passed a test, and relevent paperwork was completed) until such times as the plates were ready for collection, but I'm 95% sure now they council issue the plates right away once the insurance, pass cert, mot etc is seen/checked.

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The views and comments of Charlie are virtual only - as this is t'internet boys and girls!

No running to the bosses - nobody likes a grass!

I think cars can run temporary with no plates. From the time it gets onto the road untill the plates are delivered.

Should any car be allowed to work without ID plates ?

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No.

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