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Bogus Blackburn taxi driver picked up women to rape them

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/n ... omen-rape/


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A bogus taxi driver who picked up women before driving them to secluded spots to rape them is facing a significant jail sentence.

Detectives say Nazim Asmal, 34, lured his victims into his vehicle while they were on their way home from nights out.

While they believed he was a taxi driver, he instead drove them to remote locations to carry out serious sexual assaults.

Asmal, now of no fixed address but formerly of Balaclava Street, Blackburn, admitted to four counts of rape at Preston Crown Court.

He has been remanded in custody to be sentenced on February 13, 2024.

Police say the first incident happened on October 3, 2021, when a victim got into Asmal’s car in Preston city centre.

He drove for around 10 minutes, before raping his victim in the car and then dropping her off back in the city centre, where she flagged a member of the public down for help.

On March 4 this year a second victim had been on a night out in Darwen when she ended up in Asmal’s car.

He drove her to a secluded area on the town's outskirts, where he then raped her.

Asmal got the victim's phone number and later called her, asking her if she "wanted to do something" before she hung up.

Police said Asmal raped his third victim on the same night he made that call.

The victim got into Asmal’s car in Darwen town centre, and while driving her towards Bolton, in the opposite direction of her home, Asmal said: “You don’t want to pay for this taxi, do you?”

He stopped in a secluded area and raped her. He then dropped her off at her home.

Investigators identified Asmal after his black Toyota Yaris was picked up on CCTV cameras.

Detective Inspector Darren Irving, from Lancashire Constabulary's East RASSO Team, said: “Asmal deliberately targeted his victims because of their vulnerable state and subjected them to serious sexual assaults.

"My thoughts are very much with the victims who continue to be supported by specially trained officers.

“If you or somebody you know has been the victim of a sexual offence I would encourage you to contact the police knowing you will be listened to, believed and that we will do everything we can to put the perpetrator before the courts.”

Victims can report it online via https://doitonline.lancashire.police.uk/ or call 101.

Another one that needs deporting but no doubt once he leaves prison his case will be strongly fought by human rights lawyers

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On the other hand, Edders, the way things are going, maybe part of his rehabilitation while in jail can be working as a cabbie to help solve the shortage of drivers

https://twitter.com/UB1UB2/status/1726547329568915502

sorry got permanently banned from twitter for making a comment (in jest) about a railway engine that started a lineside fire which used the word "arson" so can't read that


But my view has always been that driver standards must be upheld to reassure if not protect the travelling public

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Sadly not a view universally shared by the big operators.

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I read lots of stuff on Twitter (rather than posting), and I regularly see people getting banned and just setting up another account...

And I thought Elon Musk had effectively unbanned lots of accounts like yours?

Anyway, easy enough to read a tweet even if you're banned (but without opening another account) using a private window.

Just right click on the link (or maybe a two-fingered tap on your touchpad) and the menu that appears should give you some kind of option to 'Open link in new private window'.

Another option is just to have another browser installed, and if your login details aren't stored by that browser then you won't be 'banned', and it will effectively just work like a private window.

(For anyone who doesn't use private windows on their browser, it's basically like starting from scratch, and it ignores your browsing history and any stored login details etc. So, for example, if a news site gives you four 'free' articles a month, or whatever, and you've reached that limit, then it's easy enough to get round this by using a private window, so the website you're visiting will regard you as a brand new user.)

Anyway, to save you watching the short video, it's about a prisoner day release scheme to help solve the shortage of HGV drivers.

And the crim in the video is in prison for importing drugs using a truck