Kershaw denies 'front'
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• A licence bid by Cardiff-based Patrick Kershaw was adjourned after Kershaw denied that he was a "front" for an operator who had surrendered his licence in February.
Kershaw was seeking a new national licence for five vehicles at a Cardiff public inquiry. He agreed he rented office space at a yard at Ely Tidal Harbour, Ferry Road, Cardiff, from Andrew Cunningham Plant Hire. He also agreed that he was currently hiring his vehicles to ACPH.
Asked by South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh whether there was a hire agreement, Kershaw said there were invoices. He admitted that he had not checked to see if ACPH held an 0-licence, and said he would stop hiring vehicles to the company.
For Kershaw, Norman Lloyd Edwards said he had been told that fines going back to 1989 for unauthorised use of vehicles had been paid, although no receipts could be produced. Questioned 'about police interviews in January regarding the operation of vehicles without an 0-licence or vehicle excise
licences, Kershaw denied that he had said he was Andrew Cunningham: "At no time did I say I was Andrew Cunningham
and the statement was signed in my name," he said, Mervyn Pugh said that when the hearing was resumed he would require evidence from the police officers concerned and sworn affidavits that the fines had been paid. He would also want to know details of Kershaw's dealings with Cunningham.
Indicating that he would ask the VI to investigate Cunningham's operation of vehicles without a licence, the LA told Kershaw: "I have to say there is evidence linking you with Andrew Cunningham.