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Architect struck off register after racially abusing taxi driver and writing off his car

By 2025-08-26T11:34:00

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Newly qualified Thomas Ford had been celebrating with colleagues before he assaulted the driver and crashed his car into a garden fence

A newly qualified architect has been struck off the register after racially abusing a taxi driver, stealing the driver’s car and crashing it into a fence.

Thomas Ford had been celebrating the completion of his architecture training before the incident on 5 November 2022, for which he was handed an 18-week prison sentence suspended for two years.

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