A TAXI driver who ran over and killed travel agent Stephanie Hammill as she tried to escape from a "sexual predator" is bidding to get his licence back.
Mohammed Ashiq was stripped of his Hackney carriage licence in February
after he was found him guilty of driving off and leaving the stricken 20-year-old in Wakefield.
His application comes just days after former Huddersfield University student and Greek national Ioannis Revenikiotis, who lured Miss Hammill into the car which she was fleeing when she was hit by Mr Ashiq's cab, was branded a "sexual predatory animal" by a judge.
He was ordered to a secure unit under the Mental Health Act.
Mr Ashiq is applying to Wakefield Council to get his licence reinstated.
His hackney cab is registered with a member of his family.
Ashiq ran over Stephanie after she jumped into the road after she was abducted by Revenikiotis during a night out in Wakefield with her boyfriend James Garland.
At Dewsbury Magistrates Court in January, Ashiq, of Conway Road, Wakefield, was convicted of failing to stop after the accident in Batley Road, Wakefield, on November 29, 2003, and failing to report it to the police.
He admitted driving with two defective tyres.
He was handed a 200-hour community punishment order and was banned from driving for 18 months.
He later failed to win an appeal against his sentence.
Investigations showed Stephanie had been dragged 25 yards along the road under Ashiq's Toyota Carina.
Dismissing Ashiq's appeal at Leeds Crown Court last March, Deputy Circuit Judge Brian Duckworth said Ashiq must have known that he had hit something "very substantial" in the road and should have stopped.
