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OLDHAM PRIVATE HIRE DRIVER LOSES LICENCE AFTER ATTEMPTED FRAUD DISCOVERED BY COUNCIL OFFICIALS
A PH driver has had his licence revoked following an Oldham Council investiga- tion into fraudulent documents. According to the Oldham Chronicle, during the Covid pandemic, councils accepted certain documents via email because offices were closed due to restrictions on working. In June 2020, Yasir Qudratullah, from Oldham, sent his insurance certificate and vehicle log book into the licensing team. Officers noted that alterations had been made to the documents to make
it appear that insurance was in place when it had run out. Further investigations with the insur- ance company and the DVLA confirmed this to be the case and legal proceedings against the 36-year-old were started. Qudratullah was charged under the Fraud Act 2006 and pleaded guilty on the day of his trial. At a sentencing hearing at Tameside Magistrates’ Court, Qudratullah was fined £80 and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £34, plus council costs of £600.
The council’s licensing panel subse- quently removed his licence. Councillor Jean Stretton, Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods, said: “The council will not hesitate to take enforcement action against anyone who attempts to obtain a licence by deception.
“If this hadn’t been picked up by our diligent officers, members of the public would have been driven around by a man without insurance which is a significant safety risk, and one the council will not tolerate.”
15 MONTHS’ JAIL FOR WEST BROMWICH CABBIE WHO FORCED TONGUE IN WOMAN’S MOUTH BEFORE SEX ATTACK
A brave woman has told a court how she no longer feels safe following a sexual assault. The young woman was being driven home in a taxi before the driver, Asif Hussain, 44, forced his tongue into her mouth. DerbyshireLive reports that Derby Crown Court heard how Hussain, from West Bromwich, left his victim “hyster- ical from sobbing, hyperventilating” and “thinking she was going to be raped” in his cab. Jailing the married father-of-one for 15 months, Judge Shaun Smith QC added: “This is about a 23-year-old woman who got into a (then) 41-year-old man’s taxi and trusted that taxi driver to take her home, be polite, take her money and go to another job. “She thought she was going to be raped or seriously hurt and felt effec- tively powerless, she said and that’s because you wanted to satisfy your own sexual desires. I would be failing in my public duty if I did not send you to prison.” Mark Achurch, prosecuting, said the Derbyshire victim had been out with a friend on the night of the sex attack. He
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said Hussain saw her standing out- side a takeaway holding a pizza box and asked if she need a cab home. The prosecutor said a fee of £20 was agreed and the defendant first dropped one
of her friends off at her Derbyshire home and then drove to the victim’s address. Mr Achurch said: “She went to leave the vehicle and he forcibly grabbed her by the face and put his tongue in her mouth. He put his hand down her top and into her bra, she was saying ‘no’ on several occasions and described him making ‘sexual moans’ while he continued while she was frozen in fear. “The defendant then put his hand down the front of her skirt and tights but then stopped when she told him, falsely, she was on her period. She opened the door and ran into her home.”
Mr Achurch said DNA from the victim’s bra was linked to the defendant and to his red Toyota Prius car which at the time was registered as a taxi with Leicester City Council. Hussain denied the offence until the day of his trial in June where he plead- ed guilty to one count of sexual assault. He has no previous convictions or cautions of any kind. Mohammed Latif, mitigating, said that since the sexual assault in November 2019, his client has been disowned by his former wife who he had been with him for almost two decades. He is now remarried with a nine-month-old child. Mr Latif said: “He has disgraced himself in his community, among his work colleagues and within his own family. It is plain that the defendant feels completely embarrassed by his con- duct, fully accepts his responsibility for it and the impact it has had on her.” Mr Latif said Hussain is no longer work- ing as a taxi driver and instead is now a delivery driver. As well as the jail sentence, Judge Smith ordered Hussain to sign on the sex offender register for ten years.
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