Taxi man denies raping passenger
A WOMAN passenger was allegedly raped by a taxi driver late at night while being taken to see a relative.
A court heard that Huseyin Aydin asked her if she could pay for the fare in advance and then told her something like: “You can pay for it in another way”.
A jury at Preston Crown Court heard allegations that he locked the doors centrally and drove to a secluded spot on the journey from Lancaster to Morecambe.
There it is claimed he raped her, ignoring her pleas for him to stop.
Aydin, 48, a Turkish national of Easington, Lancaster, has gone on trial on two charges of rape, both of which he denies.
The allegations concern a night in February last year when the woman in her 20s rang Coastal Taxis just before midnight to take her from a Lancaster Hospital to see a relative who had been prosecuting, said the woman became aware of Aydin taking one hand off the steering wheel to caress her right thigh and told him to stop.
The Skoda stopped somewhere between Lancaster and Morecambe and the prosecution claim Aydin forced the woman to perform a sex act on him. She was crying, in a state of shock and pleaded with him to stop.
Immediately after that, he is alleged to have carried out a second rape. He is also alleged to have asked if she would like to meet him again and to have put £2 in her pocket.
After police arrested Aydin, he said the woman had threatened to report him for sexually assaulting her if he didn’t do exactly what she asked.
“He said, in effect, she had raped him, that she had forced him to engage in a series of sexual acts against his will,” said Mr Donnelly.
The defendant, who came to this country in 1990, claimed that the woman had told him after he collected her “Turn the meter off. Let’s have some fun. I’ll pay you in another way”.
He had worked for Coastal Taxis for three and a half to four years at the time.
Aydin said she had wanted to travel to the West End area of Morecambe.
After 7pm, taxis were not supposed to take patients, he said. When asked what her job was, the woman said she was a nurse at the hospital, he claimed.
He suggested that the woman went on to say “You’ve started the meter, but I don’t have any money” and that she later said “Turn the meter off.
Let’s have some fun. I’ll pay you in another way”.
The married man also told the jury in his evidence that during the journey she started stroking his leg and saying “You understand what I mean, don’t you?”
He said “I told her no, it couldn’t happen. She didn’t accept it”.
Aydin claimed the woman pulled her hand further up his leg. He told her not to do that, but she didn’t stop.
He continued “I said to her ‘I don’t like what you are doing.
“Take this five pounds and get out of the car.” He patted her as he did that.
“She changed all of a sudden”. The woman didn’t get out of the vehicle, so he thought about taking her home and dropping her off.
Aydin added “She said ‘you’ve touched me. You have to do what I say or I’ll report you that you sexually assaulted me’ “.
He said he was asked to drive to a quiet place. He tried to talk to her, but she wouldn’t listen.
“She told me she wanted to have sex with me. I slowed down to try and persuade her not to,” he said.
“I didn’t want to have sex with her. I was worried about losing my licence”, he explained, referring to a previous incident where the court heard a complaint was made about him.
The defendant said the previous complaint, which occured before the present allegations, followed a girl aged fourteen to sixteen being sick in his car.
He had to get the taxi cleaned and he took her sister to a cash point machine, where £85 was given to him.
This led to a complaint because the sister was only seventeen. He said he thought she was over eighteen.
He mentioned in evidence that as a result of the complaint, he went to the council who told him never to have underage girls in the car and take them to cash machines.
“They told me they would take my licence off me if I did that again”.
Regarding the alleged rapes, he said the woman had a phone in her hand and told him that if he didn’t do what she wanted, she would call the police.
He said the woman undid his clothing and he was telling her ‘please stop. Come on, let’s go back.’
“I said to her that I was married. She continued to say I had my fingerprints all over her.
“I let myself go, I started doing what she was telling me to do.
“She wanted me to have sex with her.”
He said the woman positioned herself so that sexual intercourse took place.
The trial continues.
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