Taxi Driver Online

I don't know if there has been an outcome to this trial but here are the opening exchanges. Personally I'm keeping an open mind about these events.
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Evening Gazette

May 10, 2008, Saturday

I DIDN'T TOUCH HER IN ANY WAY;

Accused denies kidnap and sex assaults

BYLINE: GARETH LIGHTFOOT

A TAXI driver accused of kidnapping and sexually attacking a female passenger has denied any wrongdoing.

"I didn't touch her in any way," Mohammed Saddique told a Teesside Crown Court jury yesterday.

"She was being friendly with me, I was being friendly with her. I just drove. Wherever she said, I took her."

Saddique, 29, is accused of keeping a 23-year-old woman in his cab against her will for about an hour.

Instead of taking her to her Billingham home after a night out, he drove her to Seaton Carew and Hartlepool, say the Crown.

It is alleged he reached over while driving, and indecently assaulted her three times and once touched her leg.

He said there was no truth in the sexual allegations, and denied driving her against her will, locking the car doors or making suggestive comments.

He was the hackney carriage driver who picked her up from Middlesbrough in the early hours of September 19 last year.

He said the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told him to drop her friend off first then take her to Seaton Carew.

According to Saddique, she was not sober, changed her directions and acted strangely during the journey. "She said, 'Take me to the seaside.' She said we'd chat there."

He claimed she repeatedly asked him to stop the car for her to go to the toilet.

He said she repeatedly got out of the vehicle near houses in well-lit areas and got back in, before asking to be dropped off at Wolviston Services.

With the meter reading pounds 32, she paid him pounds 10 and promised to pay the rest later, he added.

The woman previously told the jury she feared the taxi driver would rape her and considered throwing herself out of the car.

She texted a friend: "The taxi man won't let me out of the taxi. I dunno where he's taking me. Will you help me please?"

Under cross-examination by prosecutor Tina Dempster, Saddique said the woman was lying, but did not know why she would do so.

Saddique, of Crescent Road, Middlesbrough, denies kidnapping and three counts of sexual assault.

The dad, whose wife was expected to give birth to their third child this weekend, said he received no complaints in his two-and-a-half years working for Binks Taxis in Billingham.

Proceeding
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http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teess ... -20901903/

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IDFIMH

Dose a Hackney Carriage down in Middlesbrough have a seat in the front of the cab?

Or is it a luggage compartment like up here in Edinburgh?





If it is indeed, a luggage compartment, the driver would find it bloody hard to have "reached over while driving indecently assaulted her three times and once touched her leg."

Anyone shed some light on this one?

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

I would guess that it was a saloon car.

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Grandad,

Ah well there you have it grandad, I wouldn't have asked if it was clear that it was in fact a saloon car.

The hacks up here don't drive saloons and as far as I am aware, it's the same down in London.

I know of one driver in Edinburgh who was accused of much the same thing, but the stupid tart forgot that she couldn't be locked in if the driver was in the back with her.

She claimed that the driver climbed in the back and that she couldn't get out because the doors were locked - bullchit. The driver would need to have his foot on the break to keep the doors locked and he couldn't do this and be in the back at the same time.

This little mistake got the driver off after being falsely accused.

Oh and btw, you can guess what you like but it still doesn't answer the question.

See if you can wake-up the other braincell that's rattling around in that head of yours.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

I didn' realise Gateshead was in Middlesborough or Billingham was in Gateshead.

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Skull on TDO

TF pi$$ed on his chips.

My mistake, it should have read Middlesbrough.

Regards

JD

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CCTV would have sorted this allegation wouldn't it?

Regards

JD

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Only if he had had it on....

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

That would have weakened his defence if it was turned off.

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IDFIMH

Nice to see you are human.

B. Lucky

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"Here's a simple solution. If you don't want to pay more for a premium service then wait in the queue, problem solved".
Skull on TDO

TF pi$$ed on his chips.

If I make a mistake I'll gladly own up to it, unlike some.

Regards

JD

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You little liar

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!