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NOTTINGHAM DRIVER JAILED FOR 16 MONTHS AFTER HIS DASHCAM RECORDED HIS SEX OFFENCES


A cabbie has been jailed after his own dashcam recorded him sex- ually assaulting a female pas- senger. Police say Imran Yaseen targeted the woman at about 11pm on 14 February after picking her up in Nottingham city centre. The victim, a woman in her 30s, was sittting in the front passenger seat when the 40-year-old began making inappropriate comments and touching her leg. Nottinghamshire Police said he later pulled over near Clifton and subjected the woman to a serious sexual assault. Yaseen was arrested the following day after the taxi firm identified him. His car was then seized along


with an internal facing dashboard camera installed to protect him and other drivers from harm, the force said.


When officers then downloaded the footage, they were able to see and hear the entire incident. Yaseen, from Nottingham, pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual assault at Nottingham Crown Court in March. Appearing at the same court on 14 November he was jailed for 16 months and added to the sex offenders’ register for ten years.


He was also made subject to a sexual harm prevention notice that will prevent him from driving a taxi on his release and placed on the sex offenders' register for ten years. PC Tom Gregory said: “This was an opportunist assault on a vulner- able female passenger and I am pleased Yaseen has now been jailed. The victim in this case put her trust in him to take her home safely and he utterly abused that trust by


subjecting her to a


prolonged sexual assault. “Thanks to the evidence contained on his own dashcam camera, he had little option but to plead guilty and will now spend a significant amount of time in time in prison.”


BRADFORD CABBIE BLINDED BY SUN HIT AND KILLED CYCLIST GIVEN SUSPENDED SENTENCE


A Bradford taxi driver has been sentenced to six months in prison, suspended for 12 months, after causing the death of a head- teacher in a road traffic collision. Fiaz Hussain, 60, pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving following the incident on Barkerend Road in June 2022. The court heard that Hussain was attempting to turn right at a junction when he collided with Jeremy Richardson, 61, who was cycling to work at about 6.30am. Hussain later said that he had not been able to see the cyclist coming downhill towards him because he was “blinded by the sun”. Prosecutor James Lake submitted that the safest option would have


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been to stop or proceed with extreme caution due to the low sun, but Hussain did neither. Mr Richardson crashed into the side of Hussain’s Mercedes Vito vehicle and suffered injuries from which he later died in hospital. Bradford Crown Court heard on 4 November, that Hussain stopped at the scene and called an ambu- lance as members of the public performed CPR on the cyclist. Victim statements from Mr Richardson’s family highlighted the devastating impact of his loss. The court heard that Mr Richard- son was a “highly respected” headteacher and keen cyclist. In mitigation, Hussain’s defence counsel said it had been “a tragic


failure” to see the approaching cyclist. He said his client, who is married with two children, had worked as a taxi driver since 1990 with an impeccable driving record, but had now lost his employment. Sentencing Hussain, Judge Jonathan Gibson accepted he had shown remorse for his offending and said after balancing all the submissions put forward, he had concluded that a six-month prison sentence could be suspended for 12 months. In addition to the suspended sentence, Hussain was ordered to complete 80 hours of unpaid work and attend rehabilitation activity days. He was also disqualified from driving for a year.


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