Bristol taxi driver helped stop sex attack after driving drunk student and man home, court hearsA STUDENT said she was very drunk when she “gave up” as a man led her to a taxi, took her to his home and molested her.
But a jury heard how taxi driver Shambaz Rehman was so concerned for her he called police and they came to her aid.
Hasan Karkardi, 26, of Stapleton Road, Bristol, denies sexual assault and false imprisonment in June last year.
A jury at Bristol Crown Court watched a video of an interview the complainant made to police.
She told how she had been to a party and ended up alone on Park Street, after a friend who was going to stay the night decided to get a coach back to London in the early hours.
The woman said: “I was walking up Park Street on my own and I think this guy crossed the road.
“He started talking to me, I don’t remember what he said.
“I told him to leave me alone. He didn’t really listen.
“I said ‘I have a boyfriend’ and he said he was Italian.
“I got the impression that he thought ‘She’s English, she’ll be easy’.
“I said ‘no, that’s not how it works, please leave me alone’.”
The woman recounted how the man pinned her to a wall, she dropped her chips, and kept asking him to leave her alone.
She said: “He just kept on harassing me and getting in my way.
“I don’t know why on earth I got in a taxi with him. I didn’t know what I was thinking.
“I got in, very reluctantly. I didn’t want to go with him at all.
“I think the taxi man sensed something was not quite right.”
The court heard that the pair were driven off, and the man stopped the taxi to get some money from an ATM.
The woman said: “The taxi man said ‘are you ok, do you want to go?’
“I said ‘no’. I said do you think I should get out and run away?
“I don’t remember the taxi man replying. We went on to the destination.”
The complainant said they ended up at the man’s flat, where he stripped down to just his boxer shorts, tried to kiss her and pinned her down on his bed.
She told how, very briefly, he out his hand into her underwear before she pushed him away.
She managed to go to another room, she said, but no-one was there.
With that banging came from the front door and, as she tried to go down stairs, the man kept pulling her back.
She next recalled being led out by police.
The woman conceded she had drank about a half a bottle of white wine, a plastic cup of red wine, two or three vodka punches and up to two double vodkas and coke.
She said: “I don’t know why I got into the taxi. I didn’t want to.
“I was telling him to leave me alone.
“I had sort of given up, sort of thing.
“’Leave me alone’ wasn’t really working.”
The case continues.
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This lady was very lucky as things could have been much worse thank goodness for the sensible thoughts the taxi driver had.
