Assault driver loses licence
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A DRIVER who appeared before the West
Midland Traffic Commissioners at Birmingham last week walked out of the courtroom before the chairman, Mr. J. Else, had completed giving their decision on the possible revocation or suspension of his p.s.v. licence. Mr. William John Leonard Ward, of Trench, Shropshire, interrupted saying: "This means I shall have no job." His licence was revoked.
Mr. Else said that Ward was before the Commissioners in March after he had been convicted of indecent assault There had also been previous convictions for a breach of the peace, larceny and embezzlement.
However, on the strength of a recommendation from the Shropshire probation service, it had been decided to renew his licence for a trial period of 12 months. But at Wellington last month. Ward was bound over for 12 months after being found guilty of a further indecent assault.
Mr. Ward said that he wanted to make it clear that the Commissioners had been told of the last conviction in an anonymous letter. He was being persecuted by poison-pen writers, one of whom had threatened to have his driver's licence taken from him.
He added that he was receiving treatment which was proving successful but he could not produce either a doctor's note or a letter from a probation officer.
Arthur J. Lansdown, sales manager of Gloster Saro Ltd., is in Europe on a market assessment tour covering, on average, two countries a week until the end of December.