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Teenager raped by Eastbourne taxi driver, court told

A teenager was raped by a taxi driver on the bonnet of his cab at Beachy Head, a court was told. The 19-year-old care worker said she did not want cabbie Afraz Ullah to have sex with her in the early hours of New Year's Day.

Ullah, 36, picked her up after she had seen in the new year partying with friends at the Atlantis nightclub on Eastbourne Pier. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said a cab was ordered for her and she asked Ullah to drive her home to Hastings.

She said she began to realise something was wrong when he started to drive out of Eastbourne towards Brighton. She claimed he touched her leg and “talked dirty” to her as they chatted and joked while they drove along.

The teenager said she realised they were at Beachy Head when Ullah stopped his car in a lay-by. She said: “He put his hand on my leg. It made me feel a bit uneasy but I didn't say anything. “I said I needed to go to the toilet and got out of the car.

“He was standing in front of the car when I got back so I asked him for the keys because I wanted to drive. “Up until then he had been friendly but his mood changed when I asked him for the keys.”

She said Ullah refused to give them to her so she started to walk around the front of the car to get into the passenger seat. She told the court that Ullah had then had sex with her. She added: “I did not want to sleep with him, I just wanted him to take me home. I never said I wanted to.”

Ullah, of Cavendish Avenue, Eastbourne, denies raping her in the early hour of January 1, this year. The married father-of-three told police she “came on” to him and consented to have sex with him.

Walton Hornsby, prosecuting, said the teenager had drunk enough to put her three times over the driving limit. He said: “She was considerably affected by drink at the end of a long evening and all she wanted to do was get home. “She told police that she was clear she did not want to have sex with the defendant and never told him she did.”

The trial continues.

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