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DAGENHAM MAN WHO ABUSED WOMAN IN HIS TAXI IS JAILED FOR FOUR YEARS
A taxi driver is start- ing a four-year jail sentence after he sexually assaulted a passenger. Peter Teye planned the assault on his 21- year-old victim in Colchester, Chelms- ford Crown Court heard. Teye, from Dagen- ham, switched off his taxi’s CCTV before attacking
the
woman. The court heard she had been enjoying a night out with friends and had been drink- ing when she got into Teye’s Ford Fiesta. He said he would drive her home. Instead, he stopped his car in Berechurch Hall Road and sexu-
ally assaulted the woman in the early hours of June 9 last year. Teye, 33, denied the sex assault but was convicted after a trial. Judge Charles Grat- wicke told him: “The public, and women in particular, are enti- tled to expect trust from the driver when they get into a taxi. “You breached that trust in a very serious way and there was a degree of planning as you switched off the taxi CCTV. “She did nothing to encourage you and was left in fear. There can only be one sen- tence.” Teye was put on the sex offenders’ regis- ter for life.
A taxi boss, whom Teye was working for at the time of the assault, said he deserved prison for his crime. It has emerged the sex offender faced similar charges in the past. While living in With- am, Teye was cleared of sexually touching a 24-year-old woman in 2009. Clive Woolgar, direc- tor of Colchester firm Five Sevens, told the Colchester Daily Gazette: “Any- one who does something like that deserves what they get. He was given the badge by Colch- ester Council, so our understanding was he was clear. If I had
“I don’t want anyone who would do some- thing
like that Peter Teye known about the
previous allegation, I would have thought twice about taking him on. “It is crucial to have trust and we do all we can to check our drivers, but rely on the council.
working for me.” After his sentence, Detective Constable Rachel Evemy, of Essex Police, said: ‘The victim showed great courage in coming forward and going through the court process.” She added: “I would also like to thank the member of the pub- lic and another taxi driver who came to the victim’s aid on the night in ques- tion.” The mum of two who was sexually assault- ed by Peter Teye has urged victims of simi- lar attacks to come forward. The woman was trav-
EXETER SEX PREDATOR JAILED FOR GROOMING CHILDREN ON FACEBOOK
A sexual predator has been jailed for grooming and abus- ing children online. Tony Bradbury be- came so arrogant about his abuse of children that when an undercover police officer contacted him on Facebook under the guise of a teenage schoolgirl, he arranged a meet- ing almost straight away. But awaiting the 41- year-old taxi driver at Exeter Central sta- tion in December last year was not his next intended victim - it was a team of detec- tives and a set of handcuffs. Bradbury, from Exeter, was sentenced to three years and ten
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months in custody at Exeter Crown Court for a string of sexual offences. But the full scale of his criminal activity could still be much greater and police believe there may be many other victims out there who are yet to come forward. According to the Exeter Express and Echo, concern about Bradbury’s behav- iour
prompted
officers to set up their sting by creating a fictional 13-year-old girl
Abbot named Holly James. Within days of opening a Face- book page Bradbury was sending sexually explicit invitations. He arranged a meet-
from Newton
then discovered that he had made contact with six real girls on the internet and gone on to abuse one after luring her
to his Tony Bradbury
ing at McDonald’s in Newton Abbot but when
this ren-
dezvous fell through he asked the girl to take a train to meet him in Exeter. He was arrested as he prepared to pick her up in his car. After his
shocked detectives arrest
home. He persuaded others to commit sex acts on webcam which he recorded on his com- puter, Exeter Crown Court was told. His online victims were all picked because they lived within easy reach of his home in Exeter. Bradbury admitted two offences of sexu- al activity with a child, two of causing a child to engage in sexual activity, two of causing a child to create pornography, one of attempting to meet a girl after
grooming and 13 offences of distribut- ing, taking or making indecent images of children. During his sentenc- ing Judge Francis Gilbert, QC, praised the way the police had trapped him. He told Bradbury: “You arranged to meet what
tive Sergeant Brian Slade, of Devon and Cornwall
police’s
child exploitation unit, warned that other predators would face the same fate. He said: “This has been a complicated and
extensive you
believed to be a 13- year-old girl called Holly. You sent her messages encourag- ing her
intercourse with you.” The
judge
to have also
ordered the seizure of the Citroen car, a former taxi, which he used to ferry one vic- tim to his home from her school in East Devon. After the case Detec-
enquiry. It has uncov- ered a number of children who are vic- tims of Bradbury. “Bradbury used the internet to groom chil- dren and sexually abuse them online, he then went on to meet children and abuse them in person. “We believe there may be other victims of Bradbury and we would
encourage
those who may have been a victim of abuse to come forward.”
PHTM JULY 2013
elling home in the taxi alone when Teye pulled over, got into the back and began assaulting her. She managed to escape and flag down another taxi. The driver and pas- senger called the police. She said: “The police were brilliant and they believed me straight away and were always on my side. She added: “If it had not been for my wit- nesses - the girl and the other taxi driver - I don’t know if
I
would have won and I have to thank them for supporting me. “I want any other vic- tims
to forward.” come
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