Taxi driver lied to council by hiding his crime history

Chorley taxi driver lied to council by hiding his crime history

A taxi driver has been fined after lying to a council about his past convictions. Those applying for taxi licences have since been warned they cannot get away with hiding such matters.

On June 28 last year, Mr Zaheer Abbas applied for the grant of a private hire and hackney carriage driver’s licence. In support of his application, he declared that he had never been convicted of an offence and that he had never had a licence revoked by another Council. In fact, he had been convicted by Manchester Magistrates’ Court in 2017 for an offence of unlawfully plying for hire.Following this, he had his hackney carriage driver licence revoked by Rossendale Borough Council.

Regardless of his failure to assist with the investigation, the Council decided to charge ABBAS for an offence contrary to Section 57 of the Local Government Act 1976. ABBAS pleaded guilty to this offence but requested a court hearing to mitigate the sentence.

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