SEVERAL “PH” (private hire) and registered taxi drivers on the Morvant and San Juan taxi yesterday called for PH drivers to be regularised following the murder of 12-year-old Mercedez Layne.

Route 2 Maxi-Taxi Association president Brenton Knights yesterday called for regularisation of PH drivers during a phone interview with the Express.

“It should have been done a long time ago. We had the Andrea Bharatt issue. There was a national outcry. We are in pain again. We should not have to revert to that discussion again. It’s heartbreaking. Every time a tragedy like this happens, we come out complaining”