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CABBIE FROM SALFORD JAILED FOR 11 YEARS AFTER RAPING VULNERABLE PASSENGER


A 46-year-old cabbie has been sentenced to 16 years after picking up an intoxicated teenager and raping her in her own home. Khalafalla Yagoub, from Salford, was found guilty of rape at Manchester Crown Court in June and sentenced on July 13. He received an 11-year prison term with an additional five-year extended licence, alongside a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and a restraining order. The court heard that in the early hours of November 29, 2025, Yagoub picked up the 19-year-old victim in an unbooked taxi after she left a Manchester city centre bar at 3 am. The woman was heavily


intoxicated and in no fit state to consent. Yagoub drove her home and raped her inside the property.


In his police interview, Yagoub claimed the encounter was consensual, calling it a “gift” for driving her home. In the days after the attack, the victim felt unwell. She later received a phone call from Yagoub not knowing who he was. During the conversation, Yagoub spoke about their encounter, with the woman realising that she had been raped while in a vulnerable


and intoxicated state, and with no recollection of what had taken place. While she had some images in her mind, she had believed them to be a dream. She then reported the incident to the police. Officers attempted to track Yagoub and could not locate him, but soon found that he was due to travel on flight to Istanbul on 3 December. He was arrested at the airport before he could board and subsequently taken into custody. During the trial, the victim bravely gave evidence in court. The judge during sentencing noted that Yagoub laughed while the victim read her victim statement.


FORMER BRITISH ARMY TRANSLATOR JAILED FOR RAPE OF TEENAGE PASSENGER IN EDINBURGH


A former translator for the British Army who became a private hire driver after arriving in Scotland from Afghanistan has been convicted of raping a teenage passenger in his taxi. Abdul Nabizada, 35, targeted the 19-year-old student after picking her up from a night out in Edinburgh on November 13, 2021. Instead of driving the woman to her home, Nabizada drove her to a secluded area in Joppa, trapped her in the vehicle, and took her mobile phone before carrying out the assault. The High Court in Edinburgh heard harrowing testimony from the victim, who had left her friends early to go home. She told jurors that Nabizada


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repeatedly asked her for sex during the journey, despite her saying no and telling him she had a boyfriend. “He said ‘“can we have sex’”. He said it would be quick and it would take five minutes. I said no,” she testified, adding that he kept apologising but persisted. She told the court that she kept begging him: “Please stop it. Please stop touching me. It was horrible.” Following the attack, she fled the taxi and hid in nearby bushes before contacting a loved one. Nabizada, who lived in Edinburgh,


denied all wrongdoing during the three-day trial. He told the court that he had arrived in the UK in 2016 after working as a tailor and a translator for the US, Danish, and British militaries in Afghanistan. Despite his claims of innocence, the jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict late on 7 July. Following the verdict, Judge John Morris KC placed Nabizada on the Sex Offenders’ Register and remanded him in custody. Defence lawyer, David Taylor, acknowledged that a prison sentence is inevitable for the crime. Nabizada, who has no previous convictions, will remain in custody until he is sentenced at Edinburgh High Court on 11 August.


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