Escort girl claimed she paid for taxi fare with sex act
FARE CLAIM ... magistrates didn't believe that Jayde Watson paid her £51 taxi fare by performing a sex act on driver Ali Ahmed.
A FORMER escort who fled from a taxi without paying a £51 fare claimed she had paid for the journey by performing a sex act for the driver.
Jayde Watson, who worked under the name of Coco, got the taxi from Durham to her home in South Shields after a night out.
When the 25-year-old got to her house in John Williamson Street, she didn’t have the money to pay the fare and told the driver, Ali Ahmed she would go inside and get the money.
But when she didn’t return after 10 minutes, he knocked on her door and threatened to call the police.
After Mr Ahmed dialled 999, police arrived and Watson told them they had struck up a deal in the taxi that she would perform a sex act on Mr Ahmed in payment of the fare – something which the self-employed driver denied had happened.
After a trial at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court yesterday, Watson was found guilty of making off without paying.
Stan Sudworth, prosecuting, told the court the defendant got in the taxi at 2.15am at Claypath in Durham’s city centre.
Mr Ahmed told the court that he asked Watson if she had the money to pay when she got in the taxi, and she said she did.
He added: “About 10 minutes into the journey, she said other drivers had accepted sexual favours for payment. I said that was bad, and I wouldn’t.”
He said when he got to her house, she ran inside without paying.
Watson, who is listed on an escort website in the Newcastle area as “a genuine bootilicious Geordie girl who just loves to have fun”, told the court she hasn’t worked as an escort for about a year, but still sees regular clients.
She said: “We began to chat in the car about our jobs and it just came up that I used to be a lap dancer and an escort.
“He said the taxi fare would be about £50 – and asked what that would get him. I told him, and we agreed that it would cover the fare.”
Watson said the sex act took place in a lay-by.
She added: “I got out of the taxi and went inside, expecting that to be the end of it.
“Then he knocked on the door about 10 minutes later. I answered it and he put his foot in the door.
“I told him I would ring the police, but before I could do that, he rang them himself.”
Chairman of the bench Steven Bradley said the magistrates believed Mr Ahmed’s version of events, no sexual act had taken place and Watson owed the money for the fare.
Watson was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £51 compensation to the driver.
After the case, Watson said she would be appealing against the verdict.
She said: “I’m shocked and disgusted at the verdict.
“I’m very emotional and have always maintained my version of events is what happened.”
source: http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/crim ... -1-4574559
