Taxi driver stripped of licence after five speeding convictions

A SELF-employed taxi driver has had his licence to operate as a hire driver revoked at the end of an extended legal process.

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The decision of a Crown Court judge, in a rare appeal to the higher court challenging the earlier decisions of a magistrate's court and North Kesteven District Council's General Licencing Sub Committee, upheld and endorsed the actions and processes taken under the Council's Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Licensing Policy.

As a result, Enus Karim, owner of Agra Taxii of Sleaford, is no longer licenced to operate as a taxi driver and is ordered to pay the Council's costs of £800 for the two appeals he launched.