A private hire driver has been suspended after plying for trade, as councillors decided his story about picking up friends after a night out “doesn’t seem to add up”.
Private hire drivers aren’t allowed to pick up passengers off the street, and after bring videoed and reported by a hackney taxi driver who had been approached by the same passengers on Jamaica Street near McDonald’s, Orwa Sulaiman Ibrahim was handed a six-week ban.
Mr Ibrahim claimed he wasn’t working and had been picking up friends after a night out, but councillors on the city’s licensing committee weren’t convinced.
