Taxi Driver Online

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/cardiffonl ... -25841791/

Another one on a list getting longer and longer! so where does the blame lay...........besides the driver that is. Questions as to whether the chickens are coming home to roost because the LAs treat the job with such disdain, instead of horses for courses they have let everyone and anyone in and others pay the price.

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if you cannot be yourself, then who can you be.

Seems to be an increasingly common accusation / occurance in South Wales.

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Not a pleasant experience but at least she had the good sense to get out of the cab and call somebody. At least the driver won't be able to say he was drunk and get a slap on the wrist. Hopefully that will be the end of his taxi driving days if found guilty

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Tbh I do not think that it is any worse than anywhere else, it just seems to be the trade in general.

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Not so sure about the trade in general.

Methinks just a small proportion of scum bags that need sorting.

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If they are determined enough perverts and sexual predators will always get through the screening process what is important is that they are stopped as soon as problems become apparent

Driver denies sex assault charges

A TAXI driver accused of sexually assaulting two passengers told police it simply wasn’t true.

Married Adam Rahman, 39, is on trial at Cardiff Crown Court facing two assault charges and one of indecent exposure and has pleaded not guilty.

A jury heard he denied both girls’ allegations in interviews he gave to the police following his arrest at his home in Ffordd Ty Ynnas, Llanishen, Cardiff, in May last year, while he was working for Capital Cabs in the city.

He said he recalled picking up his first accuser at the University of Glamorgan around midnight after dropping off five other students he had driven north from a night out in Cardiff.

The girl, who was a bit drunk, got into the front of his London-style black cab, after her two friends were dropped off, to show him the way to her house.

“She was a nice girl and asked if I could give her and her friends a lift home when they came down to Cardiff,” he told the officers.

He said he gave her his mobile number and she called him, leaving her number which he kept.

Rahman said he never touched her or a second young woman who accused him in Cardiff two days later, after he gave her a lift from a party in Canton.

The prosecution alleges that passenger and the first were both touched sexually by him as he took them home and that he also exposed himself to one of them.

In his interviews, he said he wore loose jogging bottoms with an elasticated waist for driving because it was more comfortable.

Asked whether that meant it was easy to show his penis as he drove, the cabbie, who has no previous convictions or cautions of any kind, told them: “I swear I didn’t show it.”

He also said: “This is the first time in my life I have ever been in a police station.”

Rahman said the girls owed him money and one had left a silver ring with him as security. It was later identified by the owner.

A witness who had been at the party with the second woman said her friend was in the taxi and sitting in the front waiting when she came out of the house.

“The driver asked me for money up front but didn’t ask her,” she told the court. “I got out at Cathays and she went on. Later I phoned her five times to see if she was home safe but didn’t get any answer.

“The next day I went to her parents’ house and she came into the room crying.

“She said the taxi driver had tried to sexually assault her.”

In opening his case, prosecutor Michael Jones alleged Rahman had touched both girls on their legs, asked one ‘ have you ever been with a black man?’ and grabbed the other’s hand pulling it towards his exposed penis.

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source: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/cardiffonline/

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Driver guilty of sex assault on passenger

Feb 19 2010 by Liz Keen, South Wales Echo

Cab driver guilty of sex assault on passenger

A TAXI driver has been convicted of sexually assaulting a female passenger in his cab.

The student told Cardiff Crown Court she was so scared of driver Adam Rahman that she got out of the taxi miles away from her home, and started walking up the steps of a stranger’s home, pretending it was her own.

Rahman waited in his car as she did so, the court heard.

When he left, she ran across the road to a pub car park and telephoned her mother to collect her.

Rahman, 39, a married father of two from Ffordd Ty Ynnas, Llanishen, had denied assaulting both her and a second female under similar circumstances days later.

The jury cleared him of the second offence and of indecently exposing himself.

The student had been drinking at an afternoon and evening event in the student bar of the University of Glamorgan, known as The Longest Day.

She and two friends took Rahman’s cab home after he dropped off other passengers at the Treforest campus late on May 21.

When her friends got out, she said, she moved into the front seat because he could not hear her directions through his glass partition screen.

She said he asked her what she was studying and added: “Have you ever been with a black man?” and allegedly told her: “They say once you go black, you never go back.”

He told her she was beautiful, put his hand high up on her legs and then grabbed her wrist and pulled her hand towards his groin.

She told the court he asked whether she wanted to go somewhere private.

She said she told him she wanted to go home.

“I tried not to show him I was scared because I didn’t know what could happen,” she said.

“I told him we were there, saying I could see my mother in the window.

“He asked for my phone number and I refused and he asked if I would use his taxi again and I said ‘Yes, definitely’ – I was just trying to get away.”

She said Rahman then asked her to ring his phone to prove she would use him again and her number was recorded on his phone.

As she was leaving and making for the nearest house, he asked her name.

She told him Nancy because that was the first name that came into her head.

Her mother, who made the 15-minute drive to collect her, picked her up and drove only 100 yards before the student’s phone rang with a text message.

The court heard she became hysterical and they drove straight to a police station, when she found it was a message from Rahman saying “Good night Nancy”.

Judge William Gaskell bailed him for reports before passing sentence next month.

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[quote="cabby john"]

“Good night Nancy”.

Hopefully, the lasts words this sh*t hears after he's been violated from his cell-mate

Sex assault taxi driver jailed

A TAXI driver convicted of sexually assaulting at a lone female in his cab has been jailed for 18 months.

In a bid to get his sentence suspended, Adam Rahman’s lawyer had told Cardiff Crown Court that not only he but his family – his wife, children and elderly mother – would all suffer if he lost his liberty.

It was said he could get sex offenders’ treatment in the community.

But Judge William Gaskell said nothing other than immediate custody would be appropriate for such a grave breach of trust.

Rahman, 39, of Ffordd Ty Ynnas, Llanishen had targeted the young student after picking up her and two friends late at night outside the University of Glamorgan in Treforest in May 2009.

At the time he had been working for Capital Cabs in Cardiff and had dropped off a fare at the college campus when the three approached him to take them home.

A jury had heard how two got out before the third who was alone and sitting in the front seat, when the driver asked her had she ever been with a black man.

They were also told how she was so scared when he touched her, grabbed her hand and made her touch him then asked her to go somewhere private, that she pretended it was time to get out miles away from home.

Judge Gaskell said:”She made it clear she just wanted to go home but put your hand on her thigh, took her hand and rubbed it on your genitals then, then she pulled away put you hand on her again before taking her hand to you a second time.

“You again suggested going somewhere private then insisted she rang you so that you could have her number – you asked her name and she gave you a false one.

“Throughout, she was frightened but trying not to show fear knowing you were in control of a moving taxi and could have taken her anywhere.”

After he stopped and she walked up the steps of a stranger’s house to get away, the girl phoned her mother to collect her then became hysterical when she received a text message from Rahman.

She later suffered panic attacks and sleep problems.

The taxi company dismissed him when police brought the charges and he has, following conviction, also been sacked from a cleaning job he managed to get while he awaited his trial, said defence barrister Susan Ferrier.

Rahman, she told the court, was a man who cared not only for his family but also for another elderly man in his community .

He had worked all his life, never claimed a penny in benefits, didn’t drink or take drugs, had never been in trouble with the police before.

Judge Gaskell said: “He was in a position where he was trusted by the public to take young women home and he abused his position and it has had a lasting effect on her.”

Rahman, who still denies the offence, will be on the Sex Offenders’ Register for 10 years.

A jury had convicted him of sexually assaulting the student and cleared him of a second alleged incident involving another young female passenger.

South Wales Police officer Detective Constable Emyr Evans, who led the investigation, said: “This is a satisfactory conclusion to the case. During the investigation there was some excellent multi-agency work between South Wales Police, Cardiff Council Licensing Department and Capital Taxis.

“This case sends a warning that such behaviour, which is thankfully rare in Cardiff, will not be tolerated, and anyone found to be committing such offences will be arrested and could face a prison sentence.”


http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales ... -26140538/

F*** me, perhaps we should have a whip around for him.

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Probably undetected crime.....

As for a whip round more a bloody good whipping like they do in sharia muslim countries..... but then again it's ok there is it not?