A taxi driver who repeatedly punched a man accused of calling him a ‘black b******’ and spitting in his mouth at a petrol station has been allowed to keep his licence.
Asif Nawaz has been warned over the incident but faced no other action after councillors were told he was racially abused.
The lawyer said the victim had complained he had needed to jump out of the way as Mr Nawaz drove through a puddle as he pulled into the petrol station.Mr Ashraf said his client had apologised but a “significant amount of abuse” was directed at the driver. “I’m reluctant to say what he did say but I think I have to your honours, Mr Nawaz was called a ‘black b******’ and thereafter he was told he was going to get ‘a doing’.
He claimed the victim had said he had a knife but Mr Nawaz believed he was trying to scare him. The man walked alongside Mr Nawaz as he approached the shop and “then spits in his mouth”, councillors were told. Mr Ashraf said the driver then paid for his fuel, got back into his vehicle and contacted the police. He was told to go to Maryhill Police Station, the committee heard, where the man was also present.
Mr Ashraf said his client “fully accepts that he took it too far, he should have simply got back in his vehicle and phoned the police”. Cllr Alex Wilson, the licensing committee chairman, said: “We are all sickened to hear the level of abuse that Mr Nawaz has suffered. My colleagues have also suffered that kind of abuse in the past and there is no place for it.
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