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Flint taxi driver accused of raping young woman passenger in Chester


A TAXI driver picked up a drunk student before raping her in an empty house he owned, a jury has heard.

Sultan Amari, 46, of Chester Road, Flint, picked up the young woman in Chester city centre and took her to the property on Sealand Road last July.

But he denies two counts of rape, saying the complainant consented to having sex with him twice on his blow-up bed.

Prosecuting on the first day of the trial yesterday, Simon Mills told the jury of seven women and five men that on Saturday, July 11, 2015 the woman had met a friend for an after-work drink in the city.

Mr Mills told Warrington Crown Court: “The two of them had a fair bit to drink and then they separated to go to their own homes just after 9.30pm.

“(The complainant) says she has no memory leaving the last bar they were in until she came to, briefly, completely naked in a house she didn’t know, with no furniture in it apart from an air mattress on which she was laying face down.

“She could hear the voice of a foreign man who she felt was having sex with her. He was trying to get a verbal response from her.”

During the hearing, the court was shown video footage of the woman during police interview.

She identified Amari as the man she accused of raping her twice that night and told detectives how she had been ‘pinned’ and could not move her arms or legs. When asked if she had consented to sex, she said: “I don’t know, I couldn’t move. Physically I didn’t think it was something I wanted.”

The woman awoke around 8.30am in the house on Sealand Road which contained no furniture and was completely empty.

Mr Mills said: “When she came to again she was on her own in the house. She found clothes but she couldn’t find her bag.”

He said that it was a fact that they had sex twice, at about 10.30pm and 2.30am.

After both times, Amari returned to work as a taxi driver, leaving the woman in his house which he owned but didn’t live in.

Scientific tests of her blood and urine revealed that the ‘petite’ young woman could have been twice over the legal driving limit when the first act happened and around the legal limit during the second act.

A trace of methadone was also found in her blood, the explanation for which, Mr Mills said, was a ‘mystery’ as she had never taken it or been prescribed the heroin substitute.

Judge Tina Landale, the jurors and the rest of the court heard how the woman searched the house for her bag but could not find it.

She then unsuccessfully knocked on neighbouring houses in search of help.

Mr Mills said: “She was confused and disorientated and was wandering down Sealand Road in Chester.

“She was met by a man who saw she was upset, told her where she was and he let her use his mobile phone to call emergency services.”

Amari drove along Sealand Road and saw the woman on the floor in a distressed state.

Mr Mills told the court: “He pulled over to the kerb and she was asking where the bag was and he said it was still in the house.

“The defendant was in possession of her Kindle tablet device and he handed it over and then the defendant drove away.”

Amari drove back to where the woman was slumped on the roadside and returned her bag.

Police arrived and spoke with the woman and arrested Amari on suspicion of rape.

The defendant, who was living in Colwyn Close, Ellesmere Port at the time, initially picked up the woman on Bridge Street and when he asked her where she wanted to go she said, ‘take me anywhere’, the court heard.

Mr Mills said: “He took that as she wanted to have sex. He told police he considered taking her to a hotel but he took her to his house he owned.

“He says she made it very clear that she wanted to have sex and he said she had consented to full... intercourse. He says she gave every sign and was ‘enthusiastic’ about it.

“But the prosecution say that she didn’t give the defendant licence or excuse to do to her whatever he wanted to in his home.”

Proceeding.

source: http://www.chesterstandard.co.uk/news/1 ... ester.aspx

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

Hang him

steady on old chap, perhaps we should finish the trial first before we lynch him

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

Taxi driver rape trial: Court hears recording of woman making ‘sexual noises’


A JURY has heard an audio recording of a woman making ‘sexual’ noises in a taxi, just minutes before she was allegedly raped by the driver.

On the second day of the trial of 46-year-old Sultan Amari the court was played a video of his taxi after he picked up the alleged victim.

Amari, of Chester Road, Flint, is on trial at Warrington Crown Court charged with two counts of rape after he was accused of picking up a drunken student in Chester city centre before taking her to an empty house on Sealand Road and raping her twice on a blow-up bed.

Yesterday, the court heard from the alleged victim that she had gone out in Chester “for a few drinks” with a friend after finishing a shift at work. She said she only remembered parts of the night out.

CCTV played to the court showed the woman struggling to walk in a straight line after leaving Duttons, on Godstall Lane. She was later seen on CCTV hugging a man which she said she did not remember.

She said she had drunk about two bottles of wine and had not eaten since about 3pm, and had got into the taxi at 9.30pm.

A video of the taxi journey was then played to the court. In the audio the complainant said to Amari “take me anywhere”, “I will show you a good time” and “take me anywhere in Cheshire”.

After setting off Amari asked if she wanted to go to his house and the woman agreed.

She was then heard to make some sexual noises which the woman told the jury “sounded like sexual activity”.

She was asked by defence barrister Kate Hammond whether the noises on the video were “sexual”. The woman replied “yes”.

Ms Hammond asked whether the woman had instigated sexual activity. The complainant replied: “I don’t remember”. Ms Hammond then asked whether it was possible that she had consented. The complainant replied: “Yes”.

The woman said she did not remember having sex with Amari in the house and only remembered leaving the bar in Chester and waking up naked in Amari’s house.

She told the jury that she later had a flashback where she was lying face down on an airbed mattress with a man having sex with her and she was “uncomfortable” and “not able to move” which “felt wrong”.

The woman said that after she woke up in Amari’s house she left and asked a man, Roy Muir, walking down Sealand Road for help. She said that he let her use his phone to call the police and shortly afterwards Amari arrived in his taxi.

In a statement read to the court Mr Muir said that at about 4.30am he was approached by the woman when he was walking home.

He said that she was “upset and crying” and that he was “concerned about her” so let her call the police using his phone.

He said that Amari then arrived in a taxi and she asked for her bag back which he went to get before coming back.

Mr Muir said that while Amari was gone she had a “panic attack” but the police arrived a short time later, along with Amari who gave the woman her bag back before being arrested.

The court also heard part of Amari’s police interview read to the court. In it he claimed that the woman had agreed to go to his house and she instigated sex.

He told police that they had sex on the stairs of the house before going upstairs to the bedroom.

He explained that the reason the house was empty was that because he was living with his girlfriend in an address at Colwyn Close, Ellesmere Port, at the time and the house was up for sale.

He told police after having sex with the woman for about an hour she fell asleep and he went back out to work for two hours. He said he then went back and had consensual sex with the woman again before leaving again to work.

He said that he then got a McDonald’s meal for the woman before coming home to find that she was not there. He drove a short distance down Sealand Road and found the woman with Mr Muir.

Amari is expected to take the stand on Friday.

Proceeding

source: http://www.chesterstandard.co.uk/news/1 ... ises-.aspx

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

He's going to get away with that.

Sad case all round.

But the CCTV audio will give the jury something to think over.

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IDFIMH

Is drunken consent really consent? I guess if both parties were a little worse for wear it could be, but, if one party to this consensual sex is totally drunk and the other is totally sober one has to think.

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Part of the problem is that they use technology to ascertain as to whether someone was drunk at the time! Unfortunately as "WE" are all aware, some hide it (exterior wise) better than others. In the past I have picked up a passenger who seems a right as rain - at the other end they have practically fallen out of the cab.

My point being is that the person could have been alright on the surface at the beginning.....at the end and especially when body chemistry has been moved around - you are now guilty!

Perhaps we should introduce a breathalyser kit prior to........

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Common sense........is just not that Common.

No matter what happens he's going to get off with it.

no one can say that until the verdict is in

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Does one have to take a breathalyser now before one gets down to the nitty gritty?

There is no simple answer, that's why we have trials and juries to hear all the evidence and make their decisions.

But my advice to any taxi and PH driver is never ever have sex with a punter on the same night you have first met them, whilst working.

It seldom ends well.

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IDFIMH

what a vid tbh, by the time they boiled the kettle, brewed the tea then added the fooking milk i would be done anyway

Jury sent out in Chester taxi driver rape case



Sultan Amari is standing trial accused of raping a student after picking her up from a night out

The jury trying a taxi driver accused of raping a drunk female passenger he picked up in Chester city centre has retired to consider its verdicts – despite him not attending court today (September 26).

Forty-six-year-old Sultan Amari, of Chester Road in Flint, denies two counts of raping the student at a house he owned on Sealand Road on July 11 last year.

On Friday, he told members of the jury at Warrington Crown Court that he ‘would not even consider touching somebody who was not responding’, and claimed that the complainant instigated sexual intercourse on the first occasion and that all sexual contact between them was consensual.

But Amari – who was living in Colwyn Close in Ellesmere Port at the time of the alleged attacks – was absent for proceedings today, and his trial continued without him.

Addressing the ‘elephant in the room’, Judge Tina Landale urged the seven women and five men on the jury not to guess why he was not present.

“All I can say to you is he is not here and we are going to continue with the trial,” she said.

Amari’s alleged victim claims she cannot recall anything that happened in between leaving a bar in Chester and waking up naked and alone in an unfamiliar house, but later had a flashback that she was lying face-down on a mattress, unable to move her arms or open her eyes, with a man having intercourse with her.

Closing the prosecution’s case, barrister Simon Mills said the complainant’s ‘plainly strange’ behaviour in asking Amari to ‘take her anywhere in Cheshire’ and telling him that she would look after him seconds after getting into his cab ‘would put a taxi driver on notice that something is not right’.

'Classic rapist's defence'

Mr Mills said Amari had used the ‘classic rapist’s defence’, that the complainant consented to sex but regretted it the day after and ‘cried rape’.

“But it is not just crying rape,” he said.

“It is going through the video interview and waiting a year to come to court and going through the business of being cross-examined and in reality being called a liar.

“The prosecution say the defendant took complete advantage of the complainant’s odd behaviour in that taxi.

“He was in control of this situation.”

The trial earlier heard an audio recording from inside Amari’s taxi of the complainant making what sounded like sexual noises and Amari claims she followed these by touching herself in an intimate area.

Kate Hammond, defending, asked the jury to consider the ‘signals’ being given out to Amari by the complainant at that point, behaving in a provocative manner in front of 'a complete stranger'.

“The only reasonable explanation must be that she wanted to have sex.

“There is no evidence before this court that she did not consent.”

The trial continues.

source: http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/news/ ... i-11941918

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

Aww bless, are you one those that one could boil an egg by?

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!