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A taxi driver offered two women cheap fares in return for sexual favours, a jury was told yesterday.

Haroon Sidiq picked up the women after they had been to a nightclub and drove them around Oxford city centre for five minutes, badgering them for sex, Oxford Crown Court heard.

The 25-year-old would take them home “for a tenner” and a sexual act and even picked up a friend who joined them in the car, it was alleged.

It was at that point the women, both aged in their 20s, ran from the car and rang the police.

Sidiq denied two counts of kidnap and one count of sexual assault when he appeared before the jury.

It was alleged the incident happened on July 25 last year.

Opening the trial, prosecutor David Povall told the jury: “Haroon Sidiq picked up two young women in the middle of the night. They negotiated a fare to take them home to Witney and the two women got in the car.

“Instead of following the directions he was given, he drove around central Oxford and propositioned one of them, asking for oral sex and sexually abused her by putting his hand on her leg.”

Sidiq, of Courtlands Road, Oxford, denies the charges. The trial continues.

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Taxi driver cleared of attacking women




A private hire driver has been cleared of kidnapping and sexually assaulting two female passengers in Oxford.

Haroon Sadiq was acquitted by jurors at Oxford Crown Court yesterday.

The 25-year-old had always denied two counts of kidnap and one count of sexual assault in relation to the alleged incident on July 25 last year.

The three-day trial heard Sadiq, of Courtland Road, Rose Hill, had driven his Toyota Avensis down George Street in the city centre at about 3.15am.

The car displayed Royal Cars logos and its city council licence, but Sadiq said he was off-duty driving for friends after an evening in the Bridge nightclub.

Two woman in their 20s got into the car and it was alleged Sadiq asked one of them to perform a sex act in return for a cheaper fare, and kept them in the car against their will.

In police interview Sadiq said he had initially pulled over because he had mistaken one of the women for a friend.

He said he realised the error but the women got in the car for a “chit chat”.

Sadiq, who said he “wouldn’t be stupid enough to be flagging [picking up fares] where there’s cameras”, said the allegations were a “load of rubbish”.

But he admitted: “Hands up, I was stupid by chatting to them.”

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

They often are.

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