A private hire driver who police witnessed running two sets of red lights has been warned by licensing chiefs.
Monowar Hossain has been granted a restricted one-year licence extension, despite failing to declare his conviction.
Councillors on the city’s licensing committee decided to issue a “severe warning” to the driver over his future conduct.
They were told by Police Scotland that Mr Hossain, who applied for a three-year extension, had been fined £300 in May and received five points on his licence over the incident.
An officer said: “A police mobile patrol operating on a street in Glasgow witnessed the applicant drive a private hire car through two sets of traffic lights set at red.
“The first set of traffic lights was part of a junction and the second set of traffic lights… were situated at a pedestrian crossing.”
He added that during the incident, which happened in October 2022, the driver did not have customers in his vehicle.
Mr Hossain handed the committee a written submission in his defence as, he said, his English was “not good”. He added he had been driving in the city for eight years without any problems.
A council official told councillors that the applicant’s conviction “was not reported to the licensing section”. Drivers are required to report convictions as a condition of their licence.
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