IN THE NEWS ALCESTER CABBIE JAILED FOR SIX YEARS
A taxi driver who engaged in “heavy petting” with a woman passenger, who it was obvious had the mind of a child, has been jailed for six years.
According to the
Stratford upon Avon Midweek Herald, Ernest Grainger, aged 62, of Alne Bank Road, Alcester, whose life is now said to be in ruins, was also ordered to register as a sex
offender for life. Grainger had plead- ed guilty at Warwick Crown Court to two offences of causing or inciting a person with a mental disor- der impeding her free choice to engage in
sexual activity.
Prosecutor Andrew Wilkins said at the time of the offences Grainger was wor- king as a taxi driver, and the woman was described as “a vul- nerable adult”.
Tests put her mental capacity in the bot- tom one per cent of the population - and in the event of a trial, barristers had been advised to question her as they would a young child.
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The woman had been a passenger in Grainger’s taxi; and it was clear she was friendly towards him and on two occa- sions when she was his passenger he invited her back to his house where they engaged in sexual activity.
The matter came to light because one of the woman’s friends became concerned about things she was saying about Grain- ger, and police were contacted.
When officers looked at her phone they found texts ex- changed of an inti- mate nature - although Grainger had deleted them from his phone in case his wife found them.
Grainger’s victim told police she was not really consenting to what took place and she was frightened by it. When Grainger was arrested he admitted he realised the woman was vul- nerable, but in assessing her mental age as that of a late teenager he was “minimising just how vulnerable she was.” Nick Devine, defend- ing, said: “Mr Grainger is a 62-year- old man of hitherto good character who pleaded guilty at the first opportunity. It is no exaggeration to say that as a result of
this he has ruined his life. He feels pro- found regret and shame.
“He faces a prison sentence, obviously; a prison sentence in which he is a convict- ed sex offender. And when he then emerges, he faces a lifetime on the sex offenders register. “For his family, they have faced the humil- iation of having Mr Grainger’s name and the offences reported in the local press and the events of October also reported wide- ly.”
Mr Devine suggest- ed: “From his point of view this was a lady who was obviously over the age of con- sent; and the question of her men- tal capacity and her obvious difficulties were not matters he considered.”
Jailing Grainger, Judge Sylvia de Bertodano told him: “In the course of your work you came to know this lady. You took advantage of her mental condition to invite her, when she was in your taxi alone, into your house and you engaged in sexu- al activity with her. “She describes her- self as being extremely frightened by what happened, and also having made it clear on at least one of those occasions that that was not what she wanted to do. “You must have known she was high- ly vulnerable, and not at all in a position to consent to sexual activity with you. This is a very serious criminal offence.”
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