Jamie Jeffrie can keep taking private hire bookings in Glasgow. The city’s licensing committee has warned him about his future conduct and has not suspended his private hire car driver’s licence.
Police Scotland had asked for the licence to be suspended. Bailie Hanif Raja, a Labour member, asked for his dissent to be recorded. The published reports do not give the voting figures.
What councillors were told about the assault
Jeffrie admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm at Reading Crown Court in June 2025.
An officer told the committee that Jeffrie and another man had met the victim in a pub in Windsor and had at first been friendly with him. They then punched him to the ground and repeatedly kicked him to the head. His injuries included a fractured eye socket.
Jeffrie accused the man of being a paedophile. He told the committee the victim had said: “it doesn’t matter what age they are as long as you don’t get caught.”
The sentence already passed
The court gave Jeffrie 15 months in prison, suspended for 18 months. Councillors were also told he was fined £2,500 and ordered to complete 200 hours of community service.
His solicitor called the assault an isolated, one-off incident, and said the court had already dealt with him severely. He told the committee it had nothing to do with Jeffrie’s work as a private hire car driver and posed no risk to the public.
What the committee did instead
The committee did not suspend the licence. It took no action beyond the warning.
A warning is not a finding that the solicitor’s argument was accepted. Police had asked for the licence to come off the road. One member disagreed with leaving it in place. Jeffrie is still licensed to drive a private hire car.
The hearing was reported by the Glasgow Times and Glasgow Live.