Taxi Driver Strike Leader Loses Second Appeal

Taxi Driver Strike Leader Loses Second Appeal Against Suspension Of His Taxi Licence

The president of the association taxi Cardiff was ordered to pay £ 1,425 legal costs after losing a second appeal against the decision to suspend its license taxi for 10 days.

Mathab Khan, 55, was suspended by the Cardiff Council in February after finding that refused to take a ticket.
Initial call from Mr. Khan was dismissed by the Court of Magistrates Cardiff in April.

The second call to Friday - in which Mr. Khan began to mourn at any given time - Cardiff Crown Court heard the council had received a complaint about denied a short fare from the center of Claude Road, Roath.

Samantha Williams and Jacqueline O'Brien Liddiard said Khan approached the cab at about 02:15 on September 27 last year, he was in the range of Churchill Way.

Miss Williams said that when she told the driver where they wanted to go, said: "I booked" and said it was too short anyway.

"I said," How can you be quiet if your light is on His answer was "close, close '?" She told the court.

"I asked what he meant by that. He closed the window and turned off the light."

The two women store the license number of the taxi and complained to City Hall. Public Protection Committee, the Board issued the suspension. The sentence was suspended during the appeal process.

Mr. Khan, of Heol Esgyn, Cyncoed, told Friday's hearing her light was out and wounded women had memorized the number.

Cardiff bus supervisor Miss Williams rejected her application that she was "sozzled" at the time and said he had a good memory for numbers.

She added that she and her friend had to walk back after the refusal.

Khan said he would never refuse a price for being too short, and at the time had been particularly aware of the problem after a series of sexual assaults in the city and advertising on taxis complaints from women refuse short rates.

He always denied having been approached by the women and said he was reserved and waiting, without light in a short taxi station in Churchill Way.

John Kyle bar worker told the court that Khan had reserved a taxi, but it was postponed because it was a busy night on the town with Wales playing England at Twickenham in the World Cup.

John said that when he arrived in a taxi at Churchill Way, Khan took another fare, a couple goes to Barry, and also said he had already rejected another prize - although it does not say it was two women.

Asked by Claire Wilks, Cardiff Council representative, Khan began to mourn on that point, "I was so bad when I reproached me something that I did not."

He added: "I do not have my light because I expected John ... I'm a driver of a taxi with honesty and integrity man of 55 years."

Dismiss the appeal of Mr. Christopher Felstead Registrar Khan he said he and Michelle Fryer judges and Pat Hallett had found him a "confused and unreliable witness sometimes."

"We looked at Miss Williams and Miss O'Brien Liddiard are reliable and that the defendant be confusing and unreliable at times."

Mr. Khan order to pay for the board £ 1425, the recorder said he accepted the women had successfully memorized the license number of the taxi and that Mr. Khan had his cab light, indicating that it was open rates as they approached.

"The testimony of Mr. John Kyle has in no way undermine the evidence of Miss Williams and Miss O'Brien Liddiard and note the evidence whistles that Khan told him that he had rejected a price."

Mr. Khan, president of the Association of Hackney Carriage of the city, told the court he thought the costs awarded against him were excessive.

"I will appeal this decision," he said.