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Author:  Sussex [ Thu Aug 31, 2017 9:09 pm ]
Post subject:  For all those who dislike audio on CCTV
Taxi driver accused of kidnapping and raping customer, 19, in his minicab

A taxi driver is accused of kidnapping and raping a 19-year-old customer in the back of his minicab. Saeed Shaikh allegedly failed to take the young woman to her home in the Syston area. Instead he drove around the vicinity while indecently touching her upper body, Leicester Crown Court heard.

The 41-year-old parked up several times and stopped for 28 minutes during the hour-and-a-quarter the woman was in his Toyota vehicle, the court was told. Shaikh, of Hextall Road, Evington, denies kidnap, twice raping the woman, and sexual assault. All relate to the early hours of March 5.

Following his arrest, the taxi driver told police the pair consensually had full sex. The defendant now claims that, although there was some mutual intimacy, he unsuccessfully attempted intercourse with the woman. He says that she was willing for that to happen.

The court heard that Shaikh was in a private hire vehicle when he picked up the alleged victim from Churchgate, in Leicester city centre, at 4.43am. She paid him a £20 fare upfront. A camcorder recording of the vehicle’s journey included their conversation, while the car engine running, and was played to the jury.

The alleged victim is repeatedly heard saying she wanted to go home and that Shaikh was travelling in the wrong direction. At one stage she says: “No, no, no.”

Mr Varley told the jury: “It doesn’t sound like someone coming on to the taxi driver. “She’s making it plain she wants to go home.” Shaikh asked if she was single and if she wanted to go to his home. He said: “Give me a little kiss, come on.”

The defendant claimed to have a problem with his satellite navigation system and repeatedly assured the woman he was taking her home. “Sorry, I’m just very drunk,” she told him. Mr Varley said: “He then turned the camera away but we can still hear.”

The prosecutor added: “At this stage he’s stopped and is saying ‘Your house is just there.’ “Even though he’s within spitting distance of her house he’s not about to take her home. “They’re stationary for about a minute. “He’s going to try it on again and then drive off and not stop. “You can hear him taking his seatbelt off.”

The alleged victim can be heard saying: “No don’t, no, don’t, don’t. “No. Stop, stop.”

Mr Varley said the journey continued and added: “He takes her the wrong way, to Barkby Lane, and again tries to sexually assault her. “She’s asking how far away is home. “It’s dark. They’re on a country lane. “He’s put on his handbrake and she’s desperate to get home.”

The woman is heard saying she does not want to be the defendant’s boyfriend. He asked her: “You want me?” She replied: “No, I’m very drunk.” At one stage during the conversation, however, they both say they like each other.

The engine was switched off for 28 minutes, when the alleged rapes were said to have happened. The woman was dropped off in Syston town centre, some distance from her home, at 5.59am. Mr Varley said: “The camera in the car is at some point removed from his vehicle because it’s later found hidden in his house. “If this was consensual, as he’d have you believe, why has he had to remove and hide the camera? “That footage is incredibly important, in fact it’s central to this case.”

In a video statement, played in court, the woman said she had been drinking shots and vodka earlier that night and spent much of the taxi journey laying on her side on the back seat, only realising the driver was going in the wrong direction when she realised she was in Barkby.

She said: “I was scared, it was very dark, I thought he was taking me to his house or something. “I was quite worried.” She claimed he kissed and groped her several times – before finally parking in a layby and getting into the back seat and having sex. The alleged victim said: “I tried to push him off me but I was really drunk, so I couldn’t really do it.” She had not phoned the police from the vehicle earlier, because he kept saying he was taking her home.

Under cross-examination she denied suggestions from defence barrister, Philip Gibbs, she was “openly flirting” with Shaikh during “amiable banter.” She said: “That’s not correct, it was uncomfortable.” She firmly denied suggestions of having held Shaikh’s hand, kissed his neck, lifted up her own top, placed his hand on her chest or that she had “encouraged him” to have sex with her.


“No,” she said, “I just wanted to go home.” She said she was initially reluctant to tell the police the following day because “I didn’t think I would be believed.”

The trial continues.
Author:  edders23 [ Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:59 am ]
Post subject:  Re: For all those who dislike audio on CCTV
I personally believe audio should be part of CCTV but it's all the civil liberties crowd and councils that insist it shouldn't
Author:  Sussex [ Tue Sep 05, 2017 5:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: For all those who dislike audio on CCTV
Leicester taxi driver jailed for 12 years after raping customer

A TAXI driver who held a woman against her will and raped her has been sent to jail for 12 years. Saeed Shaikh denied kidnap, rape and sexual touching, but was convicted today (Tuesday, September 5) by a jury after a six day trial at Leicester Crown Court.

Police said that the 41-year-old picked his victim up in Leicester city centre in the early hours of Sunday, March 5, and was asked to take her to an address in Syston, Leicestershire. A spokesperson from Leicestershire Police told the Echo that instead of taking her to the address, he stopped the taxi – a Toyota Auris – in the country lanes surrounding Barkby, and sexually assaulted her.

A statement said that he got out of the driver’s seat, getting into the back with her and raping her. Shaikh was sentenced to 12 years in prison, and he will also be the subject of a lifetime Sexual Harm Prevention Order and will be placed on the Sexual Offender’s Register.

Detective Constable Kasie Carter-Moore, the officer in the case said: “This incident has, understandably, left the victim very shaken and she is struggling to come to terms with what happened to her. “While the guilty verdict won’t change what’s happened, I hope it will allow her to start to deal with what happened. “We have specially trained officers available to speak to anyone who has been a victim of a sexual assault and anyone who has been a victim is encouraged to report it to the police. We will take all reports seriously.”
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