A disgraced architect who was struck off for racially abusing and assaulting a taxi driver is still running a company offering building design services, we can reveal.
Thomas Ford, 28, who also stole the driver's Toyota Prius car and crashed it, had his name removed from the UK's register of architects last week after he was given a suspended jail sentence.
The sanction by the Architects Registration Board's professional conduct committee means he is no longer legally entitled to call himself an architect.
But the Daily Mail has found that Ford, who assaulted the driver on a drunken night out to celebrate qualifying as an architect, is still running a so-called 'architecture and visualisation' business which designs new buildings for clients.
Ford appears to have got round any breach of the rules by not describing himself as an architect on the website of his company Tom Ford Architecture Limited.
