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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Liam Thorp

Furious resident films taxi driver 'urinating in front garden'

A private hire taxi driver was filmed appearing to urinate in a front garden in broad daylight.

The driver was caught on camera by a concerned resident of Highfield Street in Liverpool city centre on Thursday March 23 at around 9.30am.

The footage shows the male driver stood next to his private hire taxi. He appears to urinate into the front garden of a flat building on the road. He can then be seen getting back into the car and preparing to drive away.

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The concerned resident who contacted the ECHO described the act as "disgusting."

They added: "Totally unacceptable. Nudity in public. There is now bodily fluids urine on the footpath."

"If you are making a journey you should be planning where and when you are going to stop - in restaurants, in hotels or in petrol stations. Good planning could have prevented this. Very anti social behaviour."

There is no single law dealing with public urination in the UK but there are a number of ways you may get in trouble for urinating in public.

Most penalties for public urination are laid out in the by-laws of individual local authorities under section 235 of the Local Government Act 1972. If you get caught going for a wee in public you are likely to be hit with a Penalty Notice for Disorder (PND) under Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986.

People who receive a PND will be fined £50 or £80, which they will have to pay within 21 days of receiving the notice.

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