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East Lothian taxi driver preyed on two 'very drunk' teenage boys in back of cab

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/ed ... d-21759545

John Simpson left one 18-year-old man with cuts to his manhood. The victim managed to fight off the sex attack and fled the taxi which had stopped off at a deserted business park in Edinburgh


Image: Edinburgh Live

A taxi driver who preyed on two “very drunk” teenagers in the back of his cab is facing a jail sentence.

John Simpson left one 18-year-old man with cuts to his manhood after the man woke up to find the cabbie performing oral sex on him.

The victim managed to fight off the sex attack and fled the taxi which had stopped off at a deserted business park in Edinburgh.

Simpson, 63, then drove a second drunk 18-year-old victim to deserted back street in East Lothian and told him he would perform oral sex in return for the £36 fare.

Sleazy Simpson then jumped into the back of the cab and forced himself on the “terrified” man during the 2am assault in April 2019.

Again the drunk victim managed to fight Simpson off before he told a passing bus driver about the attack and the police were called.

Simpson denied the allegations but was found guilty of both sex assaults by a jury yesterday following a four-day trial at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last week.

He was also found guilty of a further charge of making sexual comments to a third male victim in the course of a taxi journey in May 2019.

The court heard from the first victim, now 24, who described how he woke up to find Simpson performing oral sex on him in the back of the cab.

The man told the jury he was forced to fight the driver off which resulted in Simpson sustaining serious injuries during the incident in July 2015.

The victim said he had suffered cuts and grazes to his penis during the assault.

The second victim said he had been picked up by Simpson’s taxi after a drunken night out with pals in Portobello, Edinburgh, on April 29, 2019.

The man, now 20, told the jury Simpson had made sexual comments to him during the journey before pulling into a deserted street in Cockenzie, East Lothian.

The victim said the driver asked him “if he liked laddies” which he said had “repulsed” him.

The man said the taxi driver “jumped into the back and said he would perform oral sex on me as payment”.

The man added: “At first I just brushed it off as I didn’t think it was serious. He came into the back [of the taxi].”

The terrified teenager then said: “I just let him do what he wanted to do - I just let it happen.

“He put my penis in his mouth. I just sat there as I was really scared.

“I was just 18 at the time and very drunk and on my own. I didn't know what else I could have done.”

The victim added around 20 seconds later he then punched and head butted the attacker and managed to flee the taxi.

The man said he now suffers from “nightmares” due to the attack and is “struggling with my nerves”.

Simpson, from Prestonpans, East Lothian, told the jury it was he who had been attacked by the first victim in 2015 and believed he was “going to be murdered” after the man had fought back.

The pervert said the second victim had instigated the sex chat during the taxi journey and that he “never touched him”.

But the jury took just two hours to convict Simpson of the two sex assaults and the further charge of making sexual comments to a third man.

Following the verdict, Sheriff Alistair Noble said: “You have been convicted of extremely serious offences and all options will be open to the court.”

The sheriff placed Simpson on the Sex Offenders Register and deferred full sentence to next month.

Simpson was found guilty of sexually assaulting a man at Lochside Avenue, Edinburgh, on July 18, 2015.

He was also found guilty of making sexual comments and sexually assaulting a second man in Cockenzie, East Lothian, on April. 29, 2019.

The taxi driver was also found to have made sexual comments to a third man during the course of a taxi journey in Edinburgh on May 1, 2019.

After reading the title I am not going to read the story ..

... Disgusting

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

I'm struggling to fathom how there is any other way of dealing with this via one option, custody.

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IDFIMH

The report above is quite graphic. And because of the unusual nature of the incident, the explicit nature of the description is necessary to understand precisely what happened.

But the MailOnline's version avoids the p-word altogether, and even the less explicit word 'manhood' isn't used, although the article just seems a rehash of the one above, and using the same source.

Notice how the Mail's version omits the p-word, and botches this by using the word 'grazed' rather than 'grazes', which means it ends up gramatically incorrect.




For obvious reasons there's no point in a line-by-line comparison of the two pieces

But suspect that if you read the Mail's article below in isolation, it would be difficult to work out precisely what happened.

Which is maybe just as well


Pervert taxi driver, 63, faces jail for sex attacks on two ‘very drunk’ teenage boys who he pounced on in the back of his cab

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... s-cab.html

• John Simpson, 63, was found guilty of sexually assaulting two teens in his taxi
• Both victims told the court they were forced to fight the taxi driver off them
• Simpson was also found guilty of making sexual comments to a third passenger
• He was placed on the sex offenders register and will be sentenced next month

This article about the sentencing is mostly rehash, but the extract below seems to be the newer stuff.


Taxi driver sexually assaulted two 'very drunk' teens in back of his cab in Edinburgh

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scot ... o-25462961

John Simpson, 63, has been jailed and placed on the Sex Offenders Register for life after he preyed on the men after picking them up late at night and driving them to secluded areas to attack them.

[...]He returned to the dock on Monday where Advocate Kenneth Cloggie, defending, said his client continues to deny the offences and "believes he was wrongly convicted".

Mr Cloggie told the court following his conviction Simpson, a taxi driver for 30 years, and his family were forced to flee their home after local residents protested outside the property.

He said windows at Simpson's home were smashed during the protests forcing the family to leave.

In sentencing, Sheriff Alistair Noble said: "In this case custody cannot be avoided given to the gravity of the offences which you have been convicted.

"You took advantage of two passengers, lone males in your taxi, who were grossly under the influence of alcohol and in the circumstances custody is unavoidable."

Simpson was caged for 30 months and placed on the Sex Offenders Register for an indefinite period.[...]