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SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR BRISTOL CABBIE WHO STROKED STUDENT’S THIGH
A cabbie who touched a student’s thigh has been handed a suspended prison sentence. Safeer Ahmed was driving the woman home from a night out in Bristol, the city’s crown court heard. She alleged during the journey he reached from his driver’s seat and touched her thigh up and down with two strokes. Amed, 40, from Yate, near Bristol, still maintains his innocence after the incident in 2021. But a jury convicted him of sexual assault. The recorder Mr Robin Sellers handed him an eight months’ jail term, suspended for 24 months.
Sentencing him on 21 July, he told Ahmed: “You inappropriately touched the complainant on her thigh. You did so reaching over from your driver’s seat and I find she was in a vulnerable position as a lone female and after some alcohol. “She is entitled to expect that somebody in your position conducts themself appropriately and you did not.” Ahmed was handed one-to-one rehabilitation and 100 hours’ unpaid work. He will also be on the sex offenders’ register for ten years. Nikki Coombe, defending, said: “Mr Ahmed appreciates the perilous
position that he is in. He is somebody who has no experience of custody. He is very soft-natured man who would be vulnerable in a prison setting. The stress of a custodial sentence
has been
hanging over him since conviction.” Miss Coombe told the court that her client had lost his taxi driver licence as a result of the conviction and was now a delivery driver. She said: “He could be punished in the community and also have rehabilitation. The offence was almost two years ago, it was not planned, it was opportunistic, it was very brief.”
NINE YEARS’ JAIL FOR ‘REPUGNANT’ BRADFORD CABBIE WHO RAPED BARELY CONSCIOUS PASSENGER
A Bradford cabbie who raped a passenger while she was almost unconscious has been jailed for nine years.
Assad Khan, who had worked as a taxi driver for over 20 years, even used his victim’s bank card to steal £250 from her account instead of withdrawing just the £25 for the fare when they
stopped at a
cashpoint machine during the journey in the early hours. A judge at Bradford Crown Court said on 5 July, after taking the woman to her home, Khan then “barged” his way in uninvited and while she was almost unconscious on the sofa, he raped her. After the attack last year, Khan, 55, used the woman’s key to lock the front door and then posted it back through the letterbox. When the horrified victim later woke up, she
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said she felt disgusted but initially she was too embarrassed to
tell anyone what happened. A few days later however, Khan, turned up on her doorstep and tried to defend his actions saying she could get him into trouble. Recorder Ben Nolan KC said he had no doubt that Khan was trying to find out if she could remember what had happened and try to persuade her not to take any action citing his need to keep his job. The court heard the woman did report the attack to the police and when Khan was arrested, he claimed she had consented. A week before he was due to stand trial this year, Khan, who is married
with four children, finally pleaded guilty to charges of rape and theft which meant his victim no longer faced cross-examination in a court. In a victim impact statement read to the judge by the complainant at a previous court hearing, the woman branded Khan “an utterly selfish and repugnant human being”. Recorder Nolan said Khan had shown “criminal guile” in carrying out the offence and he had abused his position of trust as a taxi driver. Khan will have to register as a sex offender with the police for the rest of his life and he will also have to comply with an indefinite sexual harm prevention order. The judge also imposed a lifelong restraining order which bans Khan from having any future contact with the woman.
AUGUST 2023 PHTM
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