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EX ROTHERHAM CABBIE WHO RAPED YOUNG GIRLS 20 YEARS AGO IS FACING YEARS BEHIND BARS


A cabbie who raped young girls aged 12 and 13 two decades ago is facing years behind bars after being found guilty after a trial. Adam Ali, 43, used his car to drive youngsters to various locations in Rotherham between 2002 and 2004. Victims of Ali, known as Razwan Razaq at the time, were scared to report what he did to them until in their 30s. The pair bravely spoke out after NCA officers launched Operation Stovewood, the largest investig- ation into non-familial child sexual abuse. One girl was 12 when she was introduced to Ali by a friend.


He drove her to his house in Bramley,


and officers were near


Rotherham, where he sex- ually abused and raped her multiple times. Ali and his friends groomed a second victim, 13, by plying her with drink and drugs over months. At the time Op Stovewood begun, Ali was serving 11 years for rape and sexual activity with two girls in Rotherham. After Ali was released in April 2023


notified he


planned to travel to Pakistan, investigators gathered evidence required for charges. At Sheffield Crown Court, Ali was found guilty of seven sexual offences, including rape and indecent assault. He is due to be sentenced on June 25. NCA senior investigating officer Stuart Cobb said: “The victims showed immense courage in recounting Ali’s horrendous abuse. I cannot imagine how difficult it was for them to


relive their


experiences during the trial, yet they gave brave accounts.”


12 YEARS’ JAIL FOR CO DURHAM CABBIE WHO PICKED UP DRUNK WOMAN AND RAPED HER ON BEACH


A cabbie picked up a drunk woman before driving her to the beach and raping her. Ian Phillips was loitering in Sunderland centre after finishing his shift during the early hours of the morning. Jane Waugh, prosecuting, said Phillips had already turned off the cameras in his taxi, logged off from work for the night and had waited for some time before picking up the woman. She said the victim was particularly vulnerable and had described herself as “mortal drunk”. Newcastle Crown Court heard the woman had been on a night out in Sunderland in February last year. Two people, who were passing by, helped her into Phillip’s taxi. The next thing she remembered was leaning against the back of a car and a man standing at the other


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side of the boot watching her. She remembered saying: “Why are we here, I should be going home” and the man saying: “Come on, come on”. When she next opened her eyes, she realised she was in a car at Hendon beach. The next thing she remembered was stumbling into her mother’s home. The police were called due to physical injuries and realising no money had been taken for a taxi. In a victim impact statement, the woman said she is suffering from severe anxiety, depression and suspected PTSD. She said she has had to move house, to be closer to her family, and give up her job.


When Phillips was arrested, he said the woman had come onto him and the sex was consensual. He claimed that he had already logged off from work so he could earn cash in hand and also avoid being sent on longer jobs. Phillips, from Easington Colliery, denied rape but was found guilty by a jury following a trial. The court heard how Phillips, who worked as a taxi driver for nine years, was living with his wife and two children at the time. Judge Robert Spragg sentenced Phillips to 12 years in prison with an extended licences period of five years - a total of 17 years. Phillips must serve two thirds of his sentence before release. He was also ordered to abide by a restraining order and a sexual harm prevention order.


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