A Bristol cabbie who was “verbally abusive, aggressive and threatening” to a passenger and a taxi marshal in two incidents less than three months apart has received a ban. City councillors revoked his hackney carriage driver’s licence and refused to renew his vehicle permit following the incidents in Leicester in January and at Temple Meads station last October.
The man stormed out of the hearing at City Hall after giving his side and handed in his taxi badge in an “apparent attempt to surrender” his licence before members had retired to make their decision. Bristol City Council’s public safety & protection sub committee ruled that he had shown himself to be “completely unprofessional” and that he was not a fit and proper person to hold a licence.
Recently published minutes from the meeting on March 22 said the matter had to be treated as an urgent item because of the “seriousness of the allegations” against the cabbie, referred to as AD. The driver told the panel that the female passenger in Leicester “had become agitated and asked to leave the vehicle” and that he had let her out when it was safe.
