Uber London loses licence to operate

Re:Uber London loses licence to operate by JonAtkinson on Friday September 22, 2017 @09:05AM (#15311779)

> In the entire history of the hackney carriage (black cab) license - going back to 1662 - I know of only one case of a driver having been prosecuted for rape, about 5 years ago.

That's absolute bollocks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Worboys

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Re:Uber London loses licence to operate by scaryclam on Friday September 22, 2017 @09:54AM (#15312155)

Is it possible that that's the case PaulRobinson was referring to? A few years earlier than he thinks but it's plausable no?

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Re:Uber London loses licence to operate by dwild on Friday September 22, 2017 @10:59AM (#15312756)

Someone else gave that link: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/over-400-london-cab-dr...

Over 400 that same year he quoted.

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Re:Uber London loses licence to operate by scaryclam on Friday September 22, 2017 @11:56AM (#15313291)

That's crimes though, not rape prosecutions, which is different to the original posters claim.

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Re:Uber London loses licence to operate by JonAtkinson on Friday September 22, 2017 @10:03AM (#15312229)

Possibly, but as mattlondon's sibling comment alludes to, the statement of a single rape prosecution in more than 300 years is still a long way from the truth.

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Re:Uber London loses licence to operate by moogie on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @12:51PM (#15340404)

Yet no-one's managed to come up with evidence of it being false. Perhaps less knee jerk "I can't believe that!" and more checking facts before discounting comments

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