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SUNDERLAND CABBIE FACES LOSING LICENCE AFTER KNOCKING CYCLIST DOWN ON ROUNDABOUT


A cabbie’s job is on the line after he knocked over a cyclist outside a superstore due to the glare of the summer sun, a court heard. Munna Hussain, 32, left his victim with a fractured collar bone and minor tissue damage after the


incident at Boldon Colliery last July. Hussain, from Sunderland, was not working when he caused the accident and he stayed at the scene and dialled 999. But he will have


to face the music with licensing bosses at Newcastle City


Council for his admitted mishap, his solicitor admitted. Hussain pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention. Magistrates handed Hussain five penalty points, a £200 fine, with £85 costs and £80 victim surcharge.


THIRD HACKNEY CARRIAGE DRIVER FINED FOR ILLEGALLY PLYING AT HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA


A third taxi driver has been convicted and fined for offering illegal rides at last year’s Henley Royal Regatta. Abdul Haye Azad was caught by officers from South Oxfordshire DC parking on double yellow lines in Thameside, Henley. Officers identified the HC as a licensed by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead and therefore not permitted to pick up


customers without a booking through a licensed PH operator. When asked by an officer if Azad could take them to


Reading


Station, Azad replied ‘he could do the journey immediately for £45’. Afterwards he was approached by officers from both councils but he refused to show his driver’s badge and drove off. In Oxford Magistrates’ Court, Azad,


55, from Maidenhead, pleaded guilty to illegally plying for hire, failure to comply with a request of a council officer by failing to hand over his badge and obstruction of a council officer by driving off. He was issued a fine of £500 for the plying for hire offence and must pay the district council’s costs of £1,300 with an additional £200 victim surcharge.


FORMER BURY CABBIE SACKED AFTER ALLEGATION HE RAPED PASSENGER PLEADS FOR SECOND CHANCE


A former cab driver who faced an allegation of raping a female passenger has failed in his bid to regain his taxi licence. A panel of members from Bury Council met to


consider the


application from a man for a HC driver licence to operate in Bury. The applicant had previously held a HC driver licence granted by Bury Council. On September 5, 2012, he appeared before the licensing and safety panel in relation to an allegation of rape on a female passenger which resulted in his licence being revoked. He


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appealed the panel decision but it was dismissed.”


The applicant had since tried to regain a HC or PH licence from Bury Council in 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020 which were all refused. He tried again to gain a PH licence in late 2022 and submitted himself to a DBS check the result of which contained no information but previous DBS certificates had contained information previously disclosed in panel reports. GM Police believed that this information was relevant and ought to be disclosed despite the


fact the applicant was not charged with any offences, because he is applying for the role of taxi driver and the information relates to an allegation from 2012. The panel refused the application, finding the applicant was not a fit and proper person to hold a licence, saying: “While there was no conviction, the applicant accepted the 2012 incident was in a licensed vehicle, which was not appropriate conduct.” The driver had asserted that the incident was consensual and that he very much regretted it.”


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