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NEWCASTLE CABBIE IN COURT ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING & IMPRISONING WOMAN IN HIS TAXI
A taxi driver from Benwell appeared in court last month facing allegations of sexually assaulting a woman in his cab and false imprisonment. David Duduveica, 24, appeared at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court accused of carrying out the offences on a street in North Shields last August. Due to the severity of the charges, particularly the false imprison- ment allegation, the case will be heard at Newcastle Crown Court.
No pleas were entered during the brief hearing at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court. District Judge Paul Currer ordered
Duduveica to appear at the Crown Court on November 13. “Your case is too serious to be dealt with here,” the judge said. “You will need to appear at the Crown Court, which is in the same building.” Duduveica was released on conditional bail. Those conditions include prohibiting him from contacting the alleged victim and requiring him to reside at his the address whiuch he gave to the court.
YORK CABBIE WHO SENT UNDERAGE GIRL GIFTS AND ALCOHOL GIVEN SUSPENDED SENTENCE
A cabbie who targeted an underage girl on social media and sent her gifts of money and alcohol has been given a suspended prison sentence. Matthew Knowles, 45, from Foxwood, was convicted at York Crown Court in August of two counts of meeting a girl for sexual purposes. He also pleaded guilty to pos- sessing a single sexual image of a child of the lowest category. The court heard that Knowles had befriended the girl on Instagram and sent her messages. He told her where to
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amounts of £20 and £100 and on one occasion told her he liked the shorts she was wearing. On another occasion, he told her where to f ind vodka and beer that he said she and her friends could drink in the park.
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Twice he arranged for them to meet, once when he sold her a mobile phone for considerably less than its true value, and once when she was with a friend and he gave her £100 and some Lottery scratch cards. He also posted her picture on the social media website Kik and described having sex with her to other users. He started sending messages to the girl's friend asking her why the girl was not responding to his messages. The friend's parents saw the messages on her phone and police were called. Shannon Woodley, prosecuting, said that though none of the messages to the girl were sexual, Knowles was intending at some stage for the connection between them to become sexual. Knowles was given an 18-month
prison sentence suspended for two years, on condition he does a 90-session sex offender treatment programme, 30 days’ rehabilitative activities and 150 hours’ unpaid work. He was also placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years and made subject to a sexual harm prevention order and a restraining order, both lasting for 10 years. He told York Crown Court during his trial he is no longer a taxi driver and now has his own removals company. The judge said Knowles had been having mental health difficulties at the time of the offending. * Current York private hire taxi driver Matthew Knowles, 44, is not to be confused with the defendant in this story and has no connection to whatsoever.
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