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NORFOLK WOMAN AVOIDS JAIL AFTER £10K EURO PET TAXI FRAUD
A Norfolk woman who ran a pet transport business across Europe has been given a suspended sentence after defrauding cus- tomers out of more than £10,000. Jane Mollett, 49, of Gorleston, admitted to seven counts of fraud at Norwich Crown Court. The court heard that Mollett, who operated the company Jane’s Euro Pet Taxi Ltd, took money for jobs she never completed, often cancelling at the last minute. One customer was left stranded at Paris-Charles De Gaulle airport after Mollett failed to
transport their pets to
show up to the
Dordogne in southwest France, forcing the owner to find alternative travel at “considerable expense.” Prosecutor Hector MacLean-Watt
highlighted that the victims suffered both financial loss and additional hardship, stating: “It’s not just the question of fraud but also the loss that was suffered by the various victims.” Mitigating for Mollett, barrister Danielle O’Donovan said her client was “an absolute mess” and “couldn’t cope” at the time of the
offences. She said Mollett was driving up to 10,000 miles a week and suffered a “mental breakdown at the time,” adding that “circumstances forced her hand.” The court was told Mollett has no previous convictions and has borrowed money from her parents to repay the victims. Recorder Peter Guest noted that while she had “simply taken on too much,” customers had entrusted their pets “precious no doubt to them” in her care. Mollett was sentenced to eight months in custody, suspended for two years. She was also ordered to pay back a total of £10,345 to her seven victims within six weeks, complete 150 hours of unpaid work, and pay £150 in court costs.
FORMER LOUGHBOROUGH CABBIE CONVICTED OF 2006 RAPE DUE TO DNA MATCH IN 2022
A former Loughborough taxi driver, Mahbubur Rahman, has been convicted of a 2006 rape after a DNA sample taken during an unrelated arrest nearly two decades later linked him to the crime. Rahman, now 50, was found guilty of rape on 3 September, at Leicester Crown Court following a trial. He is scheduled to
be
sentenced at a later date. The victim, a 19-year-old woman at the time, was intoxicated when she got into Rahman’s taxi in the early hours of October 7, 2006. She reported the sexual assault to police immediately after arriving home. Although an investigation was launched, the case was filed away
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in 2009 after all leads were exhausted. The breakthrough came in April 2022, when Rahman, who had no prior criminal record, was arrested for an unrelated burglary. As part of standard police procedure, a mouth swab was taken and his DNA was entered into the policing database.
This sample provided an “exact DNA match” to the semen samples collected at the time of the rape. DC Kristina Page-Brown, the officer in the case, noted the significance of the conviction for the victim, who “has waited 19 years to get some sort of resolution and justice for the traumatic ordeal she was
subjected to that night.” Rahman initially denied the offence, later claiming the sexual encounter was consensual. “The victim trusted Rahman to take her home after a night out in Loughborough,” DC Page-Brown said. “Instead, he abused that trust and took advantage of a vulnerable woman in the worst way imaginable.”
She added that Rahman has “evaded justice for far too long and throughout has shown no remorse or regret for what he did.” The detective expressed relief that the victim can now see the man who “caused irreversible damage to her life” finally face justice.
OCTOBER 2025 PHTM
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