Company director Joseph McCann, 31, punched minicab driver Kamal Hussain in a drunken rage outside Secrets table dancing club in Eversholt Street, Euston.

McCann, of Southbrook Drive, Cheshunt, also smashed the wing mirror on Mr Hussain’s Mercedes as he took out his frustration after being denied entry to the topless club on June 21.

Mr Hussain was one of a number of Licensed Minicabs drivers illegally plying for hire and touting, outside the table dancing night club  

The chief executive of Teach Now, an education recruitment consultancy based in Finchley, pleaded guilty to common assault and causing criminal damage at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court.

He was fined £250 at a sentencing on Friday and handed a total bill of £705 including compensation to the victim and costs.

McCann, who is a governor at a Cheshunt primary school and has links to Haringey Sixth Form Centre, told the court: “I am sorry. I’m a governor of a school, I’m a friend of Haringey sixth form, I do a lot for disadvantaged children and I’m a bit gutted that I’m here today.”

District Judge John Perkins said: “It’s clear alcohol played its part in making you behave out of character.”

As usual nothing happened to the touting minicabs who were left alone to carry on illegally plying for hire outside the club by the police after the incident. 

Source: Ham and High

Editorial note to the Ham and High's Tom Marshal:

Private Hire drivers both licensed and unlicensed, who tout outside strip clubs/ night venues, are not Taxi drivers. It is unlawful for them to refer to themselves as such. This is not the first time we have had to complain about your papers misplaced use of the term Taxi/Taxidrivers. 

This is just another instance of lazy journalism from your reporters.

Above, your article has been amended to show how it should have read...please take note for further articles.

Jim Thomas, Editor 

The original article makes repeated references to the assaulted driver as a Taxi driver. It's time we fought back at the media's constant misuse and abuse of our name.

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