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Not sure what the taxi angle is here, or whether the driver lost his badge because of the allegations, or what.

Former St Leonards (Hastings) taxi driver accused of historic abuse of two young girls

https://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news ... -1-8624070

A St Leonards man subjected two girls to terrible abuse and boasted about it while he was employed as a taxi driver, a court heard.

Harry Miah is accused of abusing two girls over a number of years, as well as inviting another man to rape one of them.

Some of Miah’s abuse took place in his taxi car, Hove Crown Court heard yesterday.

Miah, 52, of The Colonnade in St Leonards, faces 11 charges including rape, all historic. Shane Lynskey, 48, of Alma Terrace in St Leonards, faces a single historic charge of rape.

Opening the case, prosecutor Francesca Levett said: “One girl was worried something bad would happen to her if she did not go along.

“[The other] was worried that she would not be believed.”

She told the jury about one instance where Miah allegedly drove one of the girls in his taxi out to an area west of Rye.

“The taxi driver wanted to film the girl and Shane Lynskey having sex.

“It occurred in a remote area that Harry Miah had specifically driven to.”

It is at this time that Lynskey is accused of raping the girl.

“It was quite obvious that she was a schoolgirl. She clearly was not consenting,” the prosecutor said.

Miss Levett told the jury that Miah did not engage in this specific instance of sexual assault himself.

However she said that he had ‘actively encouraged’ Lynskey, and was as such ‘equally guilty of rape’.

As well as this incident, Miah is accused of ten other counts of sexual activity with a child, including one of attempted rape.

The prosecutor told the court how Miah even boasted to each girl that he had abused the other, though they never knew each other.

She added: “Therefore both of these young ladies have unknowingly supported the allegations made by the other despite never knowing each other.”

Both men deny all charges against them.

The trial continues.

any updates ?

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Yes:

Former East Sussex taxi driver jailed for child sexual assault

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1740998 ... l-assault/


Image: The Argus

A FORMER taxi driver who sexually assaulted two young girls has been sent to prison for 18 years.

Harry Miah from Norfolk Drive, St Leonards, used to work as a cab driver driving children to schools in East Sussex.

The 53-year-old was sentenced at Hove Crown Court on Monday.

The sex attacks happened between 1991 and 1998 in the Hastings area.

Miah’s job was taking care of vulnerable young children and escorting them to school and home.

During the taxi school run he sexually abused a schoolgirl aged between the ages of 12 and 15 on multiple occasions.

In September last year he was convicted of two counts of indecency with a child and one count of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

During the same period Miah also sexually abused another young girl he knew from when she was six until her teenage years.

He was convicted of two counts of indecency with a child after a trial in September last year, and in January this year he pleaded guilty to another count of indecency with a child and one count of attempted rape, all in relation to that girl.

He also admitted having extreme pornography on his computer.

Miah will be a registered sex offender for life and was also given a lifelong sexual harm prevention order, severely restricting his access to children and computers.

PC Kelley Gray said: “This has been a really difficult and distressing case, due to it’s historic nature and to the challenge of sensitively but fully obtaining the evidence from such a long time ago, but this outcome shows that it is possible.

“This investigation started in April 2016 when the victim of the offences in Miah’s taxi contacted us about a separate matter and was triggered by this into recalling and disclosing what had happened to her in the 1990’s.

“This has been a very long process for everyone involved. Both victims showed great courage and strength in coming forward to describe the horrific events that they have experienced, events that as young vulnerable children they should never have had to endure."

“Victims of this type of offending do not need to suffer in silence. If you, or people you know, are being abused in this way, contact us in confidence at any time online or by calling 101,and arrange to talk in confidence to experienced investigators.”

As cruel as this sounds I think most would think it

I hope he dies in jail and is never a free man again

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

I doubt he will die in jail.

But he wont be having a good time there.

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IDFIMH

No doubt his internal plumbing will be altered while he's in there.