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THREE YEARS’ JAIL FOR FOR COVENTRY CABBIE WHO SEXUALLY ASSAULTED FEMALE PASSENGER
A cabbie attacked a woman who hired him to take her home in Coventry. Abdul Wahab has now been jailed after being convicted of a sexual assault on the woman in December 2022. During the journey home Wahab, 47, stopped the vehicle, got into the back
seat and sexually
assaulted her. Throughout the investigation by West Midlands police, Wahab’s story changed with him denying
having done it, then claiming to
not
remember the incident. He told officers that other people also had access to
his
cab and that it could have been one of them, even though there was mobile phone data linking him to the scene of the crime.
Despite Wahab’s repeated attempts to claim he couldn’t remember the night the offence happened, a sizeable body of evidence was built by officers proving he was in the area when the offence happened. Following his conviction in July last year, Wahab was remanded before his sentencing on 20 January where he was jailed for three years. He will also be on the Sex Offenders’ Register for life.
CABBIE & PASSENGER JAILED FOR MOVING COCAINE BETWEEN NORTHAMPTON AND MILFORD HAVEN
A taxi driver and his passenger have been imprisoned for drug trafficking after they were caught attempting to discard a substantial quantity of cocaine during a police stop on the Cleddau Bridge in Pem- brokeshire. Pajtim Meta (pictured right), 26, of Northampton, and Albert Nikolla, (pictured left) 26, of London, were accused of transporting cocaine between Northampton and Milford Haven. Nikolla pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply cocaine and being concerned in its supply, and during the trial, also admitted to a separate cocaine possession charge from 9 June 2023, in London. Meta denied all charges but was found guilty of possession with intent to
supply and being
concerned in the supply of cocaine after a brief jury deliberation. The prosecution, Caitlin Brazel, informed the court that Nikolla had
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Meta halted the vehicle, Nikolla fled from the back seat, discarding a bag for life. Inside the bag, officers discovered a 1,001-gramme block of cocaine, valued between £57,200 and £85,800 when sold in street deals.
been arrested in London on 9 June after officers observed him “slumped in the seat as if he didn’t want to be seen.” A licence check revealed he was a “person of interest” to immigration authorities. A search of his vehicle yielded 37
wraps of cocaine,
totalling 19 grammes, with an estimated street value of £1,110 to £1,850. The court heard that on 18 January 2023, Dyfed-Powys Police conducted routine traffic checks in the vicinity of the Cleddau Bridge, leading to the stop of Meta’s taxi. As
Meta initially claimed to police that he was merely a taxi driver, unfamiliar with his co-defendant and having never visited Pembrokeshire before. However, ANPR checks revealed nine previous trips from Northampton to Milford Haven by Meta’s taxi. Confronted with this evidence, Meta admitted to driving Nikolla on each occasion, acknowledging he had previously lied “because he was scared” of a lengthy prison sentence. Nikolla was sentenced to a total of four years and three months for both sets of offences, while Meta was jailed for five years.
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