Haulier broke examiner's jaw
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• A North Yorkshire haulier who smashed a traffic examiner's jaw has been disqualified indefinitely from holding an Operator's Licence.
Leslie Ford. of Sunnycrest Avenue, Richmond, who held a national licence for two vehicles and two trailers, failed to attend a Richmond disciplinary inquiry before North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe.
Ford was convicted in January 1995 at Teesside Crown Court of causing grievous bodily harm to traffic examiner David Horsley and was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment.
Senior traffic examiner Michael French said that the assault occurred when Horsley was investigating the unauthorised parking of one of Ford's vehicle.
He sustained two severe fractures to the jaw—it was broken on both sides and it had to be wired together for some days— as well as severe lacerations and a number of other fractures.
Revoking the licence, and disqualifying Ford, Hinchliffe said that Ford's activities had been the subject of complaints for about two years, particularly over the unlawful parking of his vehicle near his home.
A neighbour had advised Horsley that the vehicle was parked there on the date of the assault.
He found Ford involved in a heated argument. When he asked Ford for the 0-licence disc from the windscreen a serious assault occurred, with Ford repeatedly kicking Horsley in the head as he lay on the ground.
The 0-licensing System was destroyed if operators were allowed to behave in that way to DOT officials acting in the execution of their duties said Hinchliffe.