FIT AND PROPER
25 BRADFORD DRIVERS LOSE LICENCES OVER MOBILE PHONE OFFENCES
Figures obtained through an FoI request reveal that 25 Bradford- licensed drivers had their licences revoked for mobile phone offences: l 2024: Eight PH drivers l 2025: Eight PH and one HC driver l 2026: Eight PH drivers so far The latest case involved Zulfiqar Ali, 48, an Uber driver who lost his appeal against Bradford Council’s
decision to revoke his licence after he was caught holding a mobile phone while driving. Mr Ali was spotted by police in February with his vehicle weaving within its lane. An officer told the court Mr Ali was holding an illuminated mobile phone against his steering wheel and to
dropped it onto the passenger seat when he noticed
the police vehicle. He received six penalty points and had his PH licence revoked in March. Mr Ali, had only been granted his Bradford licence in November 2025, but had been a PH driver in Birmingham for 14 years before this. He denied using the phone and said it had fallen from its holder and he was putting it back.
SPEEDING STOCKPORT CABBIE BANNED AFTER 91MPH RUN ON A55
A 76-year-old cabbie has been stripped of his driving licence after failing to convince magistrates not to ban him. Irshad Ahmed, from Stockport, appeared at Wrexham Magistrates Court on 23 October, after driving at 91mph in a 70mph zone on the A55 at Gaerwen. Ahmed initially denied exceeding the speed limit, claiming he was rushing because an “unwell” passenger needed to reach a toilet.
However, after prosecutor Brian Robinson allowed him to view police bodycam footage recorded during the traffic stop, Ahmed changed his plea to guilty. Mr Robinson noted that Ahmed had not mentioned a sick passenger to the officers, having stated at the time that he was “taking the passenger to the ferry port.” Already holding nine penalty points, the new offence added four
more to Ahmed’s record, taking him past the 12-point threshold for an automatic ban. He mounted an exceptional hardship application to save his licence. However Magistrates ruled that Ahmed had failed to meet the strict legal criteria and imposed an immediate six-month driving ban. He was also ordered to pay a £466 fine, £130 in costs, and a £186 victim surcharge.
PRIVATE HIRE DRIVER FINED AFTER ILLEGAL PICK-UP AFTER MANCHESTER UNITED MATCH
Undercover Trafford Council officers caught a private hire driver in the act after he illegally picked them up outside Old Trafford on a Manchester United match day. Abdul Kayum Talukdar, 47, from Ashton-under-Lyne, was parked on double yellow lines after Manchester United’s match with Brighton on 25 October 2025. He then drove towards the officers from Trafford Council’s Licensing
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Enforcement Team, lowered his window down and agreed to take them into the city centre. When they asked him how much it would be, he cheekily asked: ‘how much will you give me?’ before insisting on £20. Shortly after the journey began, officers identified themselves and asked him to pull over. Mr Talukdar, making the motions of crying pleaded that he was sorry
and it was his ‘first time’, asking the officers not to take him to court as he had a wife and small children. However, last month at Man- chester Magistrates Court, Mr Talukdar, 47, pleaded guilty to plying for hire and driving without proper insurance. He was fined £500, with a surcharge of £200 and £300 contribution to costs, as well as six points on his driving licence.
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