Taxi driver’s costly pick-up

A TAXI driver from Glodwick has been ordered to pay more than £2,500 after being convicted of plying for hire.

Mohammed Rangzaib (44), of Brompton Street, picked up an undercover police officer on August 20, last year. The job hadn’t been booked in advance, as the law demands.

Operating as a private-hire driver, he was accused of plying for trade without a licence and without public-hire insurance, but failed to attend court. The case was proven in his absence.

Rangzaib was fined a total of £2,025 for the two offences and was ordered to pay £500 prosecution costs. His driving licence was also endorsed with six penalty points.