SHAME SHAME
CARMARTHENSHIRE CABBIE JAILED FOR 9 YEARS AFTER RAPING PASSENGER IN HER HOME
A taxi driver who raped a woman after picking her up from a night out has been sentenced to nine years in prison. Dominic Dalton, 30, of Pencader, was found guilty of the attack following a five-day trial at Swansea Crown Court. The incident occurred in the early hours of February 25, 2024, after the victim and a friend hired Dalton’s taxi in Aberystwyth. The court heard that after Dalton dropped the friend off he claimed the taxi meter stopped working at this point, as the journey was never recorded past the friend’s address. The victim fell in and out of sleep during the ride. Upon arriving at her house, Dalton helped her
inside and up to her bedroom. The woman fell asleep again but woke to find Dalton raping her.
The victim grab- bed a knife from her kitchen and screamed at him. When he refused to go, she fled the house barefoot, slashing the taxi’s tyres as she left to prevent him from following. She found safety at a nearby address and contacted the police. Dalton fled the scene but later came back to return the victim’s mobile phone, which he’d taken by mistake. After seeing police at the house, Dalton attempted to
formulate a story using his mobile phone to
access information
including ‘have you been falsely accused of rape?’ and ‘perverting the course of justice’. Despite Dalton’s claims that the encounter was consensual, a jury took less than two hours to unanimously find him guilty. DI Mathew Nelson praised the woman’s “bravery and resilience,” stating that Dalton “abused his position to ensure his passengers got home safely that night, exploiting the victim’s vulnerability.” He added that the sentence “serves to punish Dalton for his actions, but importantly also validates the victim’s voice.”
FORMER DONCASTER PH DRIVER JAILED FOR 20 YEARS AFTER HISTORICAL RAPE CONVICTIONS
A private hire driver described as a “monster” has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping a vulnerable teenage girl and a woman in separate attacks. Riyasth Hussain, 45, was convicted of three counts of rape following a trial at Sheffield Crown Court. The offences, which took place in Rotherham between 2004 and 2008, were uncovered as part of major investigation, Operation Stovewood, into historical child sexual abuse. The court heard harrowing details of how Hussain targeted a 13 or 14- year-old girl in 2004, once driving her to an empty industrial estate where he pulled her out of the cab and raped her and later plying her with alcohol before raping her.
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In a powerful victim impact statement, the woman told Hussain: “When you met me, I was just a fragile, vulnerable little girl who you could easily abuse. Today I’m a woman and my only goal is justice.” She added: “You stole my childhood, now I’m taking your freedom.” A second victim was raped by Hussain in a bedsit in 2008. In a statement read to the court, she said she could “never forgive what this monster has done to me,” noting that he had “completely ruined my life.” Sentencing Hussain on February 19, Judge Sarah Wright told the
defendant that “the harm and the wider harm you have caused is of unimaginable proportions,” add- ing that the damage to
the
victims’ lives “cannot and never will be repaired.” Hussain, a father of three from Doncaster with a criminal record involving robbery and firearms, was brought to justice through the efforts of the NCA and the CPS. Liz Fell, specialist CPS prosecutor, said: “The cruelty and abuse the victims suffered at the hands of Hussain was horrific, causing a lasting impact on their lives today. Judge Wright also paid tribute to the women, stating they had shown “the upmost courage” to ensure their “voices have now been heard.”
MARCH 2026 PHTM
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