Taxi driver sexually assaulted 14-year-old girlA taxi driver who took a schoolgirl to a flat in his cab before subjecting her to a rape ordeal was behind bars today
Mohammed Ashraf had asked to take the teenager into Edinburgh and told her he wanted to buy her something.
The 14-year-old girl thought they were going shopping but Ashraf took her instead to a flat that was currently empty.
Ashraf began looking through her phone asking her questions about photos and texts before he began molesting his victim.
Advocate depute David Taylor told the High Court in Edinburgh: “She told him to stop and tried to push his hands away but he was too strong.”
Mr Taylor said she told him that she wanted to leave and her family would be wondering where she was.
But Ashraf, 53, ignored her protests and assaulted her.
The advocate depute said: “She tried to push him off, pushing with both hands to his chest and shoulder. She could not get him off - he was too big for her to move.”
After the girl got home she went straight to her room and alerted a family member.
A 999 call was made to police.
Police went to Ashraf’s home and were told that he was out working as a taxi driver. He was later detained and taken to a police station.
The court heard that Ashraf’s DNA was found on swabs taken from the girl and her DNA was present on swabs from him.
Married Ashraf, of Netherbank, Edinburgh, admitted assaulting and raping the teenager on November 16 in 2012 at the flat in the city.
The Crown accepted his not guilty plea to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by repeatedly phoning the girl and waiting outside her school.
His not guilty plea to a further charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner towards another female was also accepted.
Defence counsel Frances McMenamin QC said a background report would be required on the first offender before sentencing him.
Judge John Morris QC remanded Ashraf in custody and deferred sentence on him until June at the High Court in Glasgow.
Ashraf was put on the sex offenders’ register.
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I'm not so sure the emancipation of women was such a good idea. 
Emmeline Pankurst has a lot to answer for. 
Personally, I would exclude them from coffeehouses, pubs, clubs, associations, etc.....etc..... 
