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TEN YEARS’ JAIL FOR HUDDERSFIELD CABBIE WHO RAPED A WOMAN HE OFFERED TO DROP HOME
A cabbie who raped a woman after offering her a lift in Huddersfield has been jailed. YorkshireLive reports that Imran Rashid Ahmed was driving his cab along Hud- dersfield Road in Holmfirth when he spotted the woman in the early hours of July 20 last year, a trial at Leeds Crown Court heard. He offered her a lift home but instead drove her to a location in Blackmoor- foot where he raped her. The court heard Ahmed then drove his victim back to the town centre where
he dropped her off.
A friend of the woman reported the rape to police a short time later and an investigation was launched by the Homicide and Major Enquiry Team. Ahmed was arrested from his home the following day and charged a short time later. The 41-year-old was sentenced to ten
years in jail on 20 January after being found guilty following a trial. Speaking after the sentencing, DCI Natalie Dawson said: “We hope this outcome will be of some comfort to the victim and to other women and girls in West Yorkshire, so they can feel safer in our public spaces. “We also hope it will encourage other victims to come forward and report such crimes to our specially trained officers, so they can provide the sup- port needed and take action against perpetrators.”
15 YEARS’ JAIL FOR SHEFFIELD CABBIE WHO DROVE STUDENT TO REMOTE WOODS AND RAPED HER
A “disgraceful” Sheffield cabbie has been sentenced for driving a vulnera- ble student out into a remote location and raping her. ExaminerLive reports that Altaf Hussain, 45, from Sheffield, was handed a 15-year sentence at Sheffield Crown court on 7 January, after being found guilty of two counts of rape on January 26, 2020. The victim got into Hussain’s cab after leaving Code nightclub in Sheffield city centre and asked him to take her home. However Hussain took her to a remote and wooded location on the edge of Sheffield and raped her in his taxi. He then took her home where her wor- ried housemates contacted the police. The victim read out a victim impact statement in court where she said that she had been having nightmares about the rape and “intrusive thoughts every day for the last two years”. Sentencing Hussain, Judge David Dixon said: “Your character references said you are a helpful member of the community that people found hard it to believe could carry out these offences. Those individuals didn’t hear the non- sense that you told to the jury.”
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Hussain had argued that he did- n’t realise the victim was intoxi- cated until after she got in his taxi and that she had made approaches to him. The judge said: “In my judgement you knew from the very moment you saw her that she was vul- nerable through drink and at that moment you chose to abuse her. The
suggestion that she made any sort of advances to you is utterly ludicrous.” Judge Dixon said that he would give Hussain an extended sentence due to the abuse of trust he had carried out in his role as a taxi driver. He said: “People want to trust a taxi driver to do the right thing. To take them home or their children home without fear. Your offending has reper- cussions across the whole of the city. It influences the way people trust taxi drivers generally. In my opinion this is clearly an abuse of trust.”
BLACKBURN CABBIE JAILED FOR 8 MONTHS FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING PASSENGER
A taxi driver who sex- ually assaulted a passenger in the back of his cab has been jailed.
Mohammed Nadeem, 45, from Blackburn, appeared before Pre- ston Crown Court on
Thursday 27 January, to be sentenced for one count of sexual assault. He was found guilty of the offence at a trial last November, where the jury delivered a unanimous verdict regard- ing the incident in March 13 2020. Nadeem was sentenced to eight months’ jail and made subject to notifi- cation requirements for a of ten years.
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