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A man who was told he “could have killed someone” after he was found to be more than double the drink-drive limit has been granted a private hire licence.

Rizwan Javid can work as a private hire driver in Glasgow despite an objection from Police Scotland. He was banned for 12 months — later reduced to nine — following a drink driving incident in July 2021.

But, after his solicitor argued he has come “a long way since then”, the city’s licensing committee granted a restricted one-year licence, rather than the requested three years.

They also issued a warning to Mr Javid, who told councillors he has not drunk alcohol since the incident, when he was going through a bad time after his cousin’s death.

A police officer told the committee that Mr Javid had been convicted in April 2022 as he drove a vehicle “after consuming so much alcohol the proportion of it in his breath was 56mcg in 100ml of breath”. The limit is 22mcg.

As well as the driving ban, which was reduced after the applicant completed a rehabilitation course, he was fined £400.

Lucky, given that the conviction was only 2 years ago - although the council added a yellow card. Dread to think what his insurance premium is.

Wondered where the usual lecture from the licensing chair was, Mr XH558, but you've obviously just posted the highlights.

But for anyone like me who's quite interested in his approach to these things (I'm planning a thesis ) then his 'speech' is towards the bottom of the piece

https://news.stv.tv/west-central/drink- ... re-licence

So the pulpit councillor slags him off for being twice over the limit, yet still gives him a license.

I think the driver is aware that he was twice over the limit, he is also bound to be aware he could have killed someone, yet the councillor still has to have his couple of paragraphs for the press.

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