{"id":483122,"date":"2025-10-08T14:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/483122\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:09:12","slug":"glasgow-licensing-committee-grants-taxi-licence-to-drink-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/483122\/","title":{"rendered":"GLASGOW LICENSING COMMITTEE GRANTS TAXI LICENCE TO DRINK DRIVER"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Glasgow’s licensing committee has approved a taxi driver’s licence for\u00a0Mason Mullen, despite objections from\u00a0Police Scotland\u00a0regarding a 2018 drink-driving incident.<\/p>\n

Police Scotland objected to the application, with an officer telling councillors that the applicant had driven without\u00a0\u201cdue care and attention or without reasonable consideration\u201d\u00a0for others.<\/p>\n

The officer detailed how Mr. Mullen’s vehicle had\u00a0“collided with a road sign on the footpath, causing his vehicle to spin onto the carriageway.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The officer added that Mr. Mullen failed a roadside breath test, which initially showed he had\u00a089mcg in 100ml breath\u2014around four times the legal limit (22mcg). A later test at the police station found him to have\u00a043mcg of alcohol\u00a0in 100ml of breath.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mullen was handed a one-year driving ban and a \u00a3350 fine in 2018.<\/p>\n

Before the committee, Mr. Mullen described his actions as\u00a0“stupid,”\u00a0but noted he has not been in trouble since and submitted character references.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the committee decided to\u00a0grant\u00a0him the licence but issued him with a warning over his conduct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glasgow’s licensing committee has approved a taxi driver’s licence for\u00a0Mason Mullen, despite objections from\u00a0Police Scotland\u00a0regarding a 2018 drink-driving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-483122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115338947113157826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}