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A private hire driver has paid the price for refusing to take a customer because she had a guide dog. The woman had booked on the Uber app to take her to a train station in Manchester city centre .

Mohamed Abid Husssain arrived to pick up the woman in Grafton Street, near Manchester Royal Infirmary. The customer is registered blind, and was hoping to catch a train home to London. But Hussain told her she could not bring "her pet" into his vehicle.

She explained that her dog was a guide dog – and reported him to the Council when he refused her fare.

Trafford council revoked Hussain's licence but he was also prosecuted at Manchester Magistrates'. At court Hussain, 42, of Mersey Bank Avenue, Manchester pleaded guilty to failing to carry a guide dog, wear his private hire d

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