44 PRIVATEHIRE AND TAXI MONTHLY FIT AND PROPER
£750 FINE FOR SUFFOLK MAN WHO RAN ILLEGAL TAXIS
Peter Baker,of Capel St Mary, was found guilty of running a private hire vehicle service under the name Bentley Chauffeurs without an operator’s licence. Babergh District Coun- cil said Baker, who did not attend the hearing, was fined £750 at South East Suffol k Magistrates’ Court. He was also ordered to pay £420 costs and a £15 victim surcharge. A four-month investiga- tion by Babergh District Council’s environmen- tal protection team uncovered a business arrangement between the defendant and an unwitting Felixstowe company to regularly use the services of Bentley Chauffeurs. On June 18, 2008 a booking was intercept- ed by police and the
court heard Baker was not authorised to act as a private hire opera- tor as he had no licence and that the driver and vehicle were also unlicensed. The driver, Gary Mills, of
pleaded guilty
Clacton-on-Sea, to
charges of being unli- censed as a private hire driver and not having the relevant licence for the vehicle. He was given a conditional dis- charge and ordered to pay £100 costs. James Buckingham, principal environmen- tal protectio n officer with Babergh District Council, told the East Anglian Daily Times: “This council will seek to prosecute any indi- vidual who flouts the law by operating with- out the appropriate licences.”
£335 FINE FOR BARNSLEY OPERATOR WHO DROVE UNLICENSEDVEHICLE
A private hire operator has been fined for driv- ing an unlicensed private hire vehicle by Barnsley Magistrates. Derek Nuttall, aged 44 of Worsbrough, propri- etor
of Allendale
Private Hire, appeared in court on April 1 and pleaded guilty to driv- ing an unlicensed private hire vehicle. Mr Nuttal l presented his vehicle for inspec- tion at the council’s testing station and it failed on a defective ball joint. He continued to use the vehicle while it was unfit for use, thus putting the safety of any passengers at risk. An officer from Barns- ley Council Regulatory Services investigated and discovered that the vehicle had completed over 700 miles, in less than a week, before
being re-inspected. Mr Nuttall was charged with using a motor vehi- cle contrary to Section 46 of the Local Govern- ment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976.He pleaded guilty and was fined £110, ordered to pay costs to the council of £200 and to pay a vic- tim surcharge of £15. Cllr Charles Wraith, Chairman of the Gener- al Licensing Regulatory Board, said: “The courts have once again sent out a strongmessage to people who think they are above the law and put the safety of their passengers at risk. “Over 60 per cent of licensed vehicles failed their routine inspections, which is unacceptable, and the council will con- tinue to take action to drive up standards with- in the trade.”
£500 FINE FOR BARNSLEY CABBYWHO DUMPEDWOMEN
A taxi driver who dumped two young women in the middle of nowhere when they realised they weren’t in the private hire vehicle they had booked has been fined almost £500. Andrew Priest, 38, of South Hiendley, plead- ed guilty to plying for hire and having no insurance when he appeared at Barnsley Magistrates’ Court. He was ordered to pay £868 which included a £250 fine for plying for hire, £250 and six points on his licence for having no insur- ance and costs of £353 plus a victim sur- charge of £15. The court was told how Priest, a private hire driver for Blueline Taxis, had stopped working for the company at mid-
night but continued moonlighting
and
picked up two young women on Eldon Street in September last year. The women panicked when they realised they weren’t in the private hire vehicle that they had booked and Priest left them in an area of Barnsley they did not know. They made a note of the registration number of the vehicle and reported the incident to the council. Councillor
Charlie
Wraith, chairman of the regulatory
licensing
board, told the Barns- ley Chronicle: “The prosecution sends out a strong message that the council licensing enforcement officers will take all necessary steps to ensure public safety.”
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