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PostPosted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 8:41 am 
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Evil rapist posed as a taxi driver outside Wolverhampton nightclub

A sex fiend who posed as a taxi driver to rape a 20-year-old woman he picked up from a Wolverhampton nightclub had his prison sentence increased to 10 years today.

Boshir Ali struck outside Babylon in North Street. The victim, who had been on an evening out with workmates, was helped by a colleague into the 35-year-old attacker’s parked car that had been made to look like a taxi with a yellow sticker down the side.

Both mistook it for a licensed taxi and her colleague, assuming she was safe, inadvertently left her to the mercy of Ali, the Appeal Court in London was told.

Instead of being taken home, she was driven to a lay-by on the A41 near its junction with the M54. Two police officers approached the vehicle to check what was going on but he said she was his girlfriend and they allowed him to drive off to a car park in Tipton where the attack took place.

Ali then dumped the victim near her home. Ali from Wellington Road, Tipton, was arrested the day after the attack just before midnight in May last year.

The victim said in a statement that, after the attack, she had ‘difficulties expressing her feelings’, had problems socialising, endured sleepless nights and found herself ‘unable to move on from the experience’, the court heard.

Ali was jailed for seven years and nine months after being convicted of rape following a trial in November. But today the case went before the Court of Appeal in London where the Solicitor General Oliver Heald asked for the jail term to be increased.

After it was raised to 10 years he said: “This is an appalling case where a man assumed a position of trust by posing as a taxi driver and then went on to betray that trust when he raped the young woman he had agreed to take home. An assault of this nature is every woman’s nightmare.”

Judges said Ali had deliberately parked his car to ‘mislead the public into believing he was a taxi driver’ and picked a woman who was ‘worse for wear with a view to sexual assault’.

source: http://www.expressandstar.com/news/crim ... nightclub/

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 8:45 pm 
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Two police officers approached the vehicle to check what was going on but he said she was his girlfriend and they allowed him to drive off


They didnt check his plate or car insurances?

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 8:50 pm 
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for starters I think ALL police should be briefed on how to confirm a HC or PH are legit

Or HMG/DVLA/MID should make available a database of all plated vehicles in the UK
If we can do it for TV licences why not?


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 8:35 am 
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Face of Tipton rapist who posed as Wolverhampton taxi driver

This is the face of a sex fiend who posed as a taxi driver to rape a 20-year-old reveller.

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Rapist: Boshir Ali, of Wellington Road, Tipton.

Boshir Ali’s crime was so shocking that his sentence was increased to 10 years.

The prosecution successfully argued that his original jail term of seven years and nine months was too lenient – and three judges agreed at the Court of Appeal in London on Friday.

The 35-year-old struck outside Babylon night club – in North Street, Wolverhampton, and was caught when he inexplicably called the victim the day after the attack from his own phone, giving detectives a vital breakthrough.

He trapped the victim by putting an eight-inch yellow sticker down the passenger door of his car to make it look like a cab.

It was parked outside when the victim, who had been drinking, came out of the club by a workmate who believed that it was a licenced taxi and helped her to get inside not realising he had left her at the mercy of a maniac.

Ali was supposed to drive her home to Wednesbury but took the drunk victim to a secluded car park where she was raped. Then he dumped the young woman near home where she fell out of the vehicle, grazing her knees.

The next morning she was too embarrassed to speak but took her mother’s mobile phone and typed into it: ‘The taxi man raped me’. Police were called and when officers checked the mobile of the victim they discovered a call made to it on the day after the attack from a number she did not recognise. Inquiries revealed it belonged to Ali from Wellington Road, Tipton, who was arrested soon after. It is not known why he wanted to ring her and unclear how he got the number, although it is possible he made a note of it after picking the phone up while she was in his car.

The defendant denied the offence, claiming that the woman had agreed to sex, but he was convicted of rape by a jury.

The Solicitor General, Oliver Heald QC, who referred the case to the Court of Appeal, said after its ruling: “It has agreed that the original sentence of seven years nine months was unduly lenient and have therefore replaced it with 10 years. I hope that the public will be reassured by this decision.”

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 8:46 am 
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Shia law should be applied; cut his bits off.


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 11:10 am 
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does anyone know if the database the cops access shows if the insurance cover is PLG or HC/PH, etc?

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 11:43 am 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
for starters I think ALL police should be briefed on how to confirm a HC or PH are legit

Or HMG/DVLA/MID should make available a database of all plated vehicles in the UK
If we can do it for TV licences why not?



Maybe they should but it wouldn't have mattered in this case as the guy never said he was a licensed vehicle and the police never thought he was.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 12:21 pm 
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toots wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
for starters I think ALL police should be briefed on how to confirm a HC or PH are legit

Or HMG/DVLA/MID should make available a database of all plated vehicles in the UK
If we can do it for TV licences why not?



Maybe they should but it wouldn't have mattered in this case as the guy never said he was a licensed vehicle and the police never thought he was.


he had signs on his car, i think the cops were negligent

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 12:39 pm 
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He trapped the victim by putting an eight-inch yellow sticker down the passenger door of his car to make it look like a cab


That's not a sign it's a stick on stripe, if the cops were negligent they wouldn't have even spoken to him. Regular car with a couple in it and the guy said it was his girlfriend and she never said otherwise, I think you are asking too much of the police to be fair.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 12:42 pm 
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captain cab wrote:

Instead of being taken home, she was driven to a lay-by on the A41 near its junction with the M54. Two police officers approached the vehicle to check what was going on but he said she was his girlfriend and they allowed him to drive off to a car park in Tipton where the attack took place.


I wonder why she didn't say anything to the police officers at the time?

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captain cab wrote:

Instead of being taken home, she was driven to a lay-by on the A41 near its junction with the M54. Two police officers approached the vehicle to check what was going on but he said she was his girlfriend and they allowed him to drive off to a car park in Tipton where the attack took place.


I wonder why she didn't say anything to the police officers at the time?


Possibly a little worse for wear and not really observing what is happening, that is if she is awake at all. The joys of having friends that leave you to go home alone and put you in the nearest vehicle I guess :wink:

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