...PROPER DERBY CABBIE SUSPENDED OVER CRASH


Taxi driver Akhtar Zaman, of Burton, has had his licence sus- pended by NW Leics DC for 12 months after pleading guilty to failing to stop at an accident. According to the Derby


Evening Telegraph Mr Zaman drove off, leav- ing a motorcyclist lying in the road with multi- ple fractures to his ankle and a dislocated elbow.


He pleaded guilty at


Leicester Magistrates’ Court to driving with- out due care and attention and failing to stop at the scene of an accident. He was fined £300, with eight points on his licence.


12 MONTHS FOR WREXHAM DRIVER WHO ATTACKED PASSENGER


A taxi driver punched a drunken passenger who could not pay the fare and then threw him across the road. Victim Richard Paul Vaughan hit his head on the edge of the pavement and an audible crack was heard. But as he lay on his back unconscious the attack continued. The Wrexham Evening Leader reports that cab- bie Peter Smithshaw, 40, sat astride Mr Vaughan’s


body and punched him, causing a


fractured nose and other injuries, Mold Crown Court was told. Local residents who looked out of their win- dows thought that the victim was dead. Smithshaw admitted assaulting Mr Vaugh- an but claimed he had been kicked in the groin first. However Judge John Rogers QC, found the prose- cution case proved and jailed him for 12 months.


The judge said that the defendant had taken


Mr Vaughan home in his taxi. He was very drunk and had no money.


The judge


added: “I am quite sat- isfied that his inability to pay provoked you into behaving violently towards him. There followed ‘an unpleas- ant attack’ which ended with the defen- dant sitting on the victim’s body.”


It was the second time that he had acted violently in the course of his job as a taxi driver, the judge said.


N LINCS CABBIE’S LICENCE COULD BE REVOKED


A taxi driver faces hav- ing his licence withdrawn for alleged- ly causing a fracas in front of employees of N Lincs Council. According to the Scun- thorpe Evening


Telegraph, the cabbie requested a compli- ance certificate but was told he would have to pay £22 for a duplicate as the original had already been issued. He refused to pay after


insisting he had not received it, allegedly using abusive language. The council now has to decide whether the cabbie is a fit and proper person to hold a licence.


FOUR MONTHS FOR LONDON CABBIE WHO FAKED FARES


A cabbie who handed fake evidence to a dis- trict judge in a bid to escape a driving ban has been jailed for four months.


Abdul Matin, 50, from King’s Cross, pleaded with his cab firm boss to change the driver’s log to falsely show he had pre-booked his job and had not been ply- ing for fares illegally. According to the Islington Gazette, Prosecutor Lesley Jones told Southwark Crown Court: “Mr


Matin was appearing at the Magistrates’ Court as a defendant in a trial about taxi ply- ing. He had pleaded not guilty at an earlier hearing and the Crown closed its case. Matin produced a driver’s log, as evidence, from the date of his arrest - when he had been taxi touting. The prosecu- tor objected to the document and ques- tioned its authenticity. Two police officers vis- ited the cab office from where Matin


worked and spoke to his boss who quickly admitted it was a fake. He was arrested for perverting the course of justice and the trial was aborted.”


Matin admitted what he had done in interview, the court heard. He was banned from driving for six months for a similar a matter in December last year and is current- ly serving a six-month ban for the original trial matter. Matin admitted perverting the course of justice.


OCTOBER 2009 PHTM


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