Officers at the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead have revoked a private hire driver's licence with immediate effect. The report to the licensing panel does not name him. It calls him Driver A.
A DBS check found he was convicted on 8 October 2025 of four offences committed on 12 July 2025. None of them was on his Windsor application.
The four offences
The borough sets out the court result as follows.
He made provision for inviting or accepting a private hire booking in London, or accepted one, without a London private hire operator's licence. That is the offence in section 2 of the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998. The fine was £4,440, with £295 costs and a £132 victim surcharge.
He was an unlicensed person soliciting people for hire-car services. That is the touting offence in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. The fine was £440.
He used a motor vehicle on a road or in a public place without third-party insurance, under section 143 of the Road Traffic Act 1988. The fine was £440.
He failed to comply with a requirement properly made by a constable or an authorised officer, under section 27 of the 1998 Act. The fine was £440.
The fines come to £5,760. With the costs and the surcharge, the borough's total is £6,187.
A Windsor driver's licence is not a London operator's licence. The borough told the panel that acting as an unlicensed operator and driver deceives the public, undermines the licensing system, and puts the passenger in an uninsured vehicle driven by an uninsured driver.
What he left off the form
Transport for London revoked his licence on 17 January 2026. The record quoted by the borough gives the reason as complaints of abuse or behaviour towards a passenger, and says it was not sexual. The report does not describe the incident.
On the Windsor form he ticked No when asked if he had previously held a hackney carriage or private hire driver's licence with the borough or anyone else. He also left out the October convictions and the TfL revocation. He signed the form to say the information was true. The borough says that failure was deliberate.
Why the licence stopped at once
Officers used the public-safety power in section 61 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976. Where they decide that public safety requires it, the revocation takes effect when the driver is given notice.
The borough's private hire policy says a driver revoked with immediate effect can appeal to a magistrates' court within 21 days. The report does not say whether he has appealed.
The decision was reported to the Licensing Panel on 12 October 2026. The panel was asked to note it. It was not asked to take the decision again.