Pugh rules on sexual assault case
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* Traffic Commissioners have no power to take action against the LGV driving licence of a driver convicted of a sexual assault. This was made plain by the West Midland Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh, when he took no action against the LGV driving licence held by a Hereford man. However, the commissioner did revoke both the PCV operator's and driving licences held by Edward Pullen, of Biddulph Rise, Tupsley, Hereford, and imposed a lifetime ban on Pullen from holding such licences. Pullen appeared at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry. He had served a two-month prison sentence after being convicted of indecently assaulting a 19-year-old girl. Revoking the licences and making the disqualification orders, Mervyn Pugh said the PCV industry needed to be protected. The public needed to know that the drivers of buses did not have convictions like this one. But the commissioner said that he had no power to take such convictions into account when considering his conduct as a lorry driver.