A Keynsham taxi driver who made inappropriate contact with women and used “abhorrent” racist language has lost his livelihood after thirty years in the profession.

In 2016 the unnamed driver, who also covered Midsomer Norton, used a customer’s contact details to find her on social media and started calling persistently when she stopped responding.

B&NES Council’s licensing subcommittee meeting in December heard that the driver also made racist comments on three occasions in less than a year, the minutes show.

In one incident he allegedly told a woman of colour the Black Lives Matter protests were irrelevant and would not change anything, and that “those who were subject to racism in the UK deserved it”.

It voted to revoke his private hire operators licence.