Seven years for Swadlincote minicab office rapistA MINICAB worker was jailed yesterday for raping a woman – after being stopped in a similar attack three years ago.
Judge John Burgess declared Humza Mahmood, 19, to be a danger to women and locked him up for seven years. The 23-year-old victim was left terrified and needs a panic alarm at her home.
She was sexually assaulted and raped by Mahmood, who was working in the offices of his uncle's firm, Alpha Cars, in Swadlincote, early on March 30.
Judge Burgess said the case was made worse because a youth rehabilitation order had been imposed on Mahmood in May last year for a sexual assault on another women when he was aged around 17.
Mahmood was convicted of rape after a four-day trial at Derby Crown Court and was sentenced after reports had been compiled. The judge told him: "This is the sort of offence which causes terrible harm to women who are subjected to this kind of attack.
"I only hope the lady concerned can put the trial process at last behind her and that may help her move on.
"There is a history. You committed a sexual assault in August 2010 in similar circumstances as this and this is very significant.
"It is quite plain you represent a significant risk of causing really serious harm to women. I considered whether a life sentence was appropriate."
Mahmood, of Thrift Road, Branston, will not be considered for parole until he is two-thirds of the way through the sentence and may not be freed until the end of the seven-year term. After that he will be on licence for five years.
The jury was told he forced his victim to give him oral sex after following her outside where she had gone for a cigarette while waiting for a minicab.
In 2010, another woman arrived asking for a minicab and he dragged her into his office where he exposed himself. Two men arrived seeking a cab and the offence ended.
Grace Hale, prosecuting, said: "This shows a tendency to attack lone women who come into the office looking for a minicab."
The rape victim arrived at Alpha Cars after another minicab firm had let her down. Mahmood said she would have to wait 30 minutes for a cab and followed her outside when she needed a cigarette.
They kissed and the sex attack took place when he followed her into the office toilets.
Mrs Hale said: "She suffers from recurring nightmares as a result of the incident and had to have a panic alarm placed at her house to safeguard her welfare. She continues to use minicabs to go to and from work but constantly telephones her mother through the course of those journeys."
The earlier attack was on a 49-year-old woman he followed outside when she went for a cigarette, the jury was told.
Heidi Kubik, for Mahmood, told the court: "He is still a young man, only just 19, and was 18 at the time of the commission of this offence.
"He is now in custody. He is going to be punished with custody for some further period.
"He will get the opportunity to hopefully mature and become more receptive to help."
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