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Dangerous convicted Bradford rapist posed as cabbie to target drunk woman on Christmas Day

A convicted rapist who tried to carry out a copycat offence by posing as a private hire driver outside a Bradford nightclub on Christmas Day has been given a 10-year extended sentence.

Seven years ago Bradford man Sajaket Khan, then 25, was jailed for two offences of oral rape after he tricked a drunken woman into getting in his “taxi” and attacking her in his locked vehicle.

In July 2013 Khan, of Allison Lane, Bradford, was jailed for six years and given an extended licence period of five years for those offences after a judge branded him a danger to lone females, but while he was out on licence last year he targeted another vulnerable victim in the city centre.

Prosecutor Rebecca Young told Bradford Crown Court today (Mon) that the woman had been out drinking on Christmas Eve and was “very drunk” when she left a nightclub on Sackville Street and got into what she believed was a taxi.

Khan, now 32, pretended that his phone was out of charge and took the complainant’s phone on the pretext of using it as a sat-nav to take her home.

But the court heard that Khan drove the woman to a secluded no-through road near to a nature reserve and after getting her out of the car he tried to walk her towards a snicket.

Miss Young said the complainant pushed Khan away and he became aggressive and abusive when she asked for her phone back.

Khan threw the phone at her and drove off, but the woman was able to take a photograph of the registration number of the car and he was arrested by police the next day.

During his interview Khan, a married father-of-one, claimed he was simply doing the woman “a favour” that night and denied he intended to commit any sexual offences.

But in September Khan admitted charges of kidnap and breaching his lifetime sexual offences prevention order which banned him from inviting female strangers into his vehicle.

Today Judge Richard Mansell QC said Khan had intended to either rape or sexually assault the complainant and he had effectively been “lying in wait”.

He said Khan had deliberately targeted a vulnerable woman by impersonating a private hire driver and inviting her into his car before asking for her phone.

"I’m satisfied that had (the complainant) not challenged you in the way she did you would have taken her down that ginnel and committed a sexual offence against her, either a rape or a serious sexual assault, the judge told Khan.

Judge Mansell jailed Khan for five years on the kidnap charge and after confirming he was dangerous offender he extended his licence period for five years.

Khan is still subject to the indefinite sexual offences prevention order made back in 2013 and he must also sign as a sex offender with the police for the rest of his life.

Judge Mansell explained that Khan must serve at least two-thirds of the five-year prison sentence before applying for parole, but he may end up serving all of it if the Parole Board decided it was not safe to release him.

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IDFIMH

And how often do we read a line like that in cases like this?

Interesting use of local dialect in the piece, though - 'snicket' and 'ginnel', with even the judge using one of them.

And when I looked them up on Google, obviously other people have been researching the difference between the two.

Some sources suggest there's no real difference, but this suggests a subtle difference, depending on the exact geography:

either way this is another one who should be permanently behind bars or extradited

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