Taxi Driver Online

Hardly a surprise the driver here is off the road. But you'd think he'd have been suspended immediately for something like this, whereas presumably he's been driving for almost two years since the incident until a recent criminal case, by the looks of it.

And, again, it's one of those suspensions rather than revocations. Which I'm sure there's a good reason for, but not really sure why, at least under the Scottish legislation


Driver who indecently assaulted and threatened woman loses licence

https://news.stv.tv/west-central/glasgo ... es-licence

Mazin Mohamed seized the passenger by the breast during the terrifying ordeal in a city street in April 2022.

A Glasgow private hire car driver who indecently assaulted a woman and threatened to abduct her while working has lost his licence.

Mazin Mohamed seized the passenger by the breast during the terrifying ordeal in a city street in April 2022.

Calling for Mohamed to have his licence suspended, Police Scotland said he was not a ‘fit and proper person’ to hold one.

Police inspector Gareth Griffiths said there are “serious concerns over public safety” and asked Glasgow city’s licensing board to immediately suspend Mohamed’s licence.

Board chair councillor Alex Wilson, SNP, said: “This is appalling. We don’t expect this type of behaviour from private car hire drivers.”

Mohamed was found guilty of assaulting the woman in court last year and ordered to carry out 240 hours of unpaid work.

He was also sentenced to a restriction of liberty order keeping him at home between 7pm and 7am.

The board suspended his licence immediately this morning during its meeting in the city.

Mohamed did not attend the licensing board meeting.

Have I missed something here?

His license wasn't suspended or revoked at the time of the offence in April 2022.

His license wasn't suspended or revoked at the time of his conviction in 2023.

But it has been in 2024.

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IDFIMH

Sussex, it doesn't say, but I was guessing the conviction happened late in 2023, and this was the first time the committee has had the opportunity to consider it, what with the festive break and the like.

But you'd think they'd have a more urgent way of dealing with cases like this, and you'd think with stuff like this he'd have been maybe suspended at the time of the incident rather than waiting for the conviction and then the committee meeting.

But, you know...

There has to be some way to temporarily suspend a driver. Say he punched a licensing officer.

The only other I can think of, that would sort of make things a bit more understandable, is that this meeting was to deal with his vehicle rather than his personal license.

Or, as I come back to edit this post, his bail conditions and final sentence banned him from the trade.

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IDFIMH

As being a private hire driver or taxi-driver is a ‘Notifiable Occupation’ the police should have informed the council of his arrest and the allegation made against him.

You'd have thought so, X-ray.

Not sure how these things work, precisely. But as I've said before a few times, it's a bit daft that in quite a few of these Glasgow cases, they can be off the road due to objections from Police Scotland, but this often doesn't happen until they're renewing, and that's when police object to the licence.

So they could have a three-year badge, commit some crime near the start of the badge's currency, but only lose the badge when it isn't renewed almost three years later