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TEN YEARS’ JAIL FOR BRADFORD CABBIE WHO RAPED PASSENGER AFTER DROPPING HER HOME
A Bradford man has been found guilty of raping a teenage passenger while working as a taxi driver in Oxford. YorkshireLive reports that Asif Khan, 37, has been jailed for ten years after a jury at Oxford Crown Court returned a unanimous verdict. During an 11 day trial, the court heard how he picked up the woman, aged in her late teens, from Atik nightclub in the city, between 2am and 4am on August 19. He drove her to her home and helped her inside. Realising she was alone in the house, Khan, from Bradford picked her up and dragged her onto the bed where he raped her. The victim awoke the following day to find condom wrappers in the bin along
with a Bluetooth headset, which belonged to Khan. Khan’s taxi was identified through ANPR.
He denied the offence in inter- views, but forensic examination of the headset and one of the condom wrap- pers proved Khan was the offender. In further interviews, Khan continued to deny the offence, stating that his headset must have been stolen. Investigating officer DC Josie Cassidy of Oxford CID said: “Khan was in a trusted occupation as a licensed taxi
driver and the victim should quite rightly have trusted him to get her to the destination safely. However, Khan completely abused this trust, and raped his victim who was alone and therefore extremely vulnerable. “This type of behaviour is utterly abhorrent, and when you consider the context of Khan’s job, it was a horrific ordeal for the victim in this case. “I would like to pay tribute to the victim for her courage and dignity while she had to re-live her ordeal in court while Khan denied the offence. “He will now serve a lengthy prison sen- tence and will be on the sex offenders register for life, and will never be able to serve as a licensed taxi driver again.”
TUNBRIDGE WELLS CABBIE WHO HIT CYCLIST AT 70MPH WHILE ON PHONE THEN DELETED CALL HISTORY JAILED
A taxi driver who crashed into a cyclist at 70mph while on a call and then wiped his phone data has been jailed for two years and eight months. The Mirror reports that Kashyap Patel, 39, was not arrested after the collision but has since admitted to causing serious injury by dangerous driving and perverting the course of justice. Patel’s iPhone and Motorola had already been handed over to Kent Police when he was able to restore them to factory settings remotely. But, after recovering SIM card informa- tion and reaching out to phone companies, the police discovered that Patel used both of his phones. Records show that he was on the phone for around ten minutes, both leading up to the crash and during the collision. “When asked about the data being erased he admitted he had done so,” said prosecutor Peter Forbes in court. “He said he went online, logged into the Cloud and that there was a way you
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could delete it.” “The deleting of the data from the phones within hours of them being seized was a calculated act intended to impede the police investigation.” The court heard that Ian Isted was cycling on the road when Patel ploughed into him from the rear. Mr Isted, who was out cycling to train for a triathlon, was thrown into the air on impact from Patel’s Ford Tourneo van in East Peckham, Kent, on Sunday 6 January 2019. He suffered serious injuries including biting through his tongue, a brain injury and a fractured spine in several places. He had to undergo surgery to fit metal rods into his back and still requires treatment to recover. Witnesses say that they were able to see Mr Isted from up to half a mile away as he was wearing a hi-vis jacket, trousers, cycling shoes and gloves, and riding a £4,500 bike with three rear- facing red, flashing lights.
The court heard the cabbie, who was not carrying passengers at the time of the incident, could have pulled into the second lane of the dual carriageway to overtake Mr Isted. Mr Forbes said that while Patel had not been speeding, he lied to the police who came to the scene that Mr Isted had cycled into his blind spot During the sentencing, Judge Catherine Moore said: “The use by drivers of mobile phones has long been recognised to have a serious and detri- mental effect on a driver’s ability to concentrate on the road. You didn’t see Mr Isted despite him being clearly visi- ble and took no evasive action as your van closed in upon him. “Albeit you may have been in a state of panic, you took a deliberate action to wipe the data.” As well as his prison term, the father- of-two from Tunbridge Wells has been banned from driving for three years and ten months.
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