A TAXI driver has had his licence revoked following allegations of sexual assault against him.

The unnamed man was stripped of his public carriage driver licence by councillors at a meeting of a BCP Council licensing sub-committee on July 9.

Details of the decision, which was made in a non-public part of the meeting, have only just been published.

Minutes say that councillors agreed that the man, who was licensed to operate within the conurbation, was “not of fit and proper character” to hold a public carriage licence.

“Members agreed that this was due to the allegations made against them, as well as the discrepancy in his version of events, on separate occasions,” the report says.

Reviews of taxi drivers’ licences by BCP Council are considered by councillors but not in public because “they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information”.