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Romford: Taxi Driver Rapist Jailed





A Romford taxi driver who raped a teenage female customer has been jailed for eight years.

The 17-year-old victim passed out after drinking too much while out with friends in Romford.

Street pastors and door staff helped her, then arranged for a licensed cab to take her home to Basildon.

But the driver, Nicolae Talaba, took advantage of the girls drunken condition and raped her after stopping the car near her home address.

Romanian-born Talaba, formerly of Mawney Road, carried on working after the attack in February 2012 but he was arrested when he returned to England after a holiday in Romania in July 2012.

He was found guilty of one count of rape after a six-day trial at Southend Crown Court and was sentenced on Monday January 21.

He was also placed on the Sex Offender Register for life.

Senior Investigating Officer DI Danny Stoten said: "This was a lengthy and painstaking investigation that lasted almost a year. Talaba took advantage of the trust placed upon him and committed this terrible offence against a vulnerable teenage girl.

"When the rape was reported the offender's identity was unknown. He was previously from Romania and so he was not on the DNA database.

The hard work of the officers involved in the initial investigation, the co-operation of the public and some excellent investigative skills identified Talaba as the offender.

"He was traced to Albania and arrested at Dover upon his return to the UK. He has showed no remorse and denied the offence throughout. This meant that the victim had to give evidence against him."

http://www.heart.co.uk/essex/news/local ... st-jailed/

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He wasn't a Taxi driver, not even close, he was a Minicab driver.

Still, only about the 50th rape over the last 12 months by the London Minicab trade, im sure the Government and TFL deem this as acceptable.

Pay [edited by admin], get [edited by admin].

GBC yer a liar post the 50 rapes or are yer referring to Warboys the Green Badge kunnnnt who managed that number per month

As for this piece on shytte another example of the corruption around the so called top test yer rekon he speaks and writes English like fekkk

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One taxi driver in 20 years, how many hundreds from the ph side? I dread to think.

These numbers are the facts Terry, unless you're claiming the victims are making up allegations against Minicab drivers on mass?

Yours seems to be the only voice I hear about raising standards within the London Minicab industry, I hear nothing from the Steve Wrights Or Eddie Townsons of the ph world?

GBC always best to have the figures methinks when throwing those sort allegations about so publish the facts azzole

Trotsky would love to meet this terry geezer sounds like a real diamond hes bang on about the standards in the industry and have seen articles in the Private Hire and /courier mag supporting his view

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The proof?

Try google, it's a great invention.

Or the official police statistics from 2009 show 170 Minicab related sexual offenses, unless of course as I've already mentioned the victims are making it up.

Ask for an FOI for 2012, see if it makes your wig stand on end.

I think a FOI request to the relevant police forces may help establish the figures, unfortunately I don't think they differentiate between the two sides of the trade

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