{"id":57977,"date":"2026-08-03T17:04:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/rapist-taxi-driver-david-brown-gives-up-operators-licences\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:04:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:04:42","slug":"rapist-taxi-driver-david-brown-gives-up-operators-licences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/rapist-taxi-driver-david-brown-gives-up-operators-licences\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapist taxi driver David Brown gives up operator&#8217;s licences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the night of the attack, Brown picked up the woman who had been on a night out in Inverness &#8211; she had wanted to go back to her Highland village.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Instead, Brown drove past her destination before pulling into a lay-by near a farm, somewhere between Strathpeffer and Dingwall, and raped her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then left her in sub-zero temperatures in Dingwall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jailing Brown at the High Court in Stirling in May, judge Lord Renucci told him he had forced the teenager to undergo a terrifying ordeal. Brown had denied the charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The following month, six male councillors on Highland Council&#8217;s licensing committee voted in favour of Brown keeping his licences to operate a taxi business. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four female councillors voted against the move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police Scotland had objected to Brown&#8217;s operator&#8217;s licence continuing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c171pgv879yo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night of the attack, Brown picked up the woman who had been on a night out in Inverness &#8211; she had wanted to go back to her Highland village. Instead, Brown drove past her destination before pulling into a lay-by near a farm, somewhere between Strathpeffer and Dingwall, and raped her. He then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[6269,2195,4823,2603,9270,2875,7204],"class_list":["post-57977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-brown","tag-david","tag-driver","tag-licences","tag-operators","tag-rapist","tag-taxi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57979,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57977\/revisions\/57979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}