Lincon TAXI DRIVER CAUGHT BY LICENSING OFFICER

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15 February 2008


An unlicensed taxi driver was caught out after he gave a lift to one of the city council's licensing officers.

Taxi driver Anthony Welburn (48 ) had neglected to renew his taxi licence when he picked up the fare.

The passenger thought she recognised him, and when she got back to work in August last year she checked the register of drivers and found his licence was three months out of date.

Welburn, of Coleridge Gardens, St Giles, Lincoln, admitted driving without a licence and driving without insurance, which was invalidated by the lack of taxi licence.

Leo Pyle, in mitigation, said that Welburn, who now works as a machine operator, had been driving for Handsome Cabs since 2006 and had forgotten to renew his licence after his marriage collapsed and his house was burgled.

Lincoln magistrates fined Welburn £300 and gave him six penalty points on his driving licence. He was also ordered to pay a £15 surcharge.

What a stupid driver?
Reminds me of one chap we had here in Sheffield who ran aout without renewing plate or his badge, and I don't think he ever came back to work after being caught out. There are always idiots who would try it on. Best of it he then went about asking people to conspire with him in a concocted story, no one did I believe and he seems to have got his just deserts.