Taxi Driver Online

Not particularly unusual case, but it's different in that this news release is on the CPS's website, rather than Merseyside Police's. Can't see it on the Echo's website either, but maybe that's to come next week.


Liverpool taxi driver jailed for sexually assaulting a teenage passenger

https://www.cps.gov.uk/mersey-cheshire/ ... -passenger


Image: Crown Prosecution Service

A Liverpool taxi driver who sexually assaulted a teenage girl in his taxi has been jailed for three years.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that Saikou Camara, 35, sexually assaulted his then 16-year-old victim when she was a passenger in his taxi on 3 August 2019.

He had stopped to let her use the toilets in the Tesco store in Allerton but when she got back into the taxi he began to assault her.

He had made some inappropriate comments in the lead up to the stop at the Tesco store and the victim had made contact with a friend to say she was concerned.

She texted her friend as the assault was happening too. She repeatedly told Camara to stop.

He eventually stopped and took her to her friend's house. The victim told Camara as she got out of the taxi that she would be ringing the police.

Camara was arrested a few days later, and was charged with assault by penetration and sexual assault. He denied the charges, but was found guilty of the sexual assault after trial. He was acquitted of the assault by penetration.

Today (24 June 2022) he was jailed for three years at Liverpool Crown Court. He has been placed on the Sexual Offenders Register for life.

Senior Crown Prosecutor Sarah Egan, a specialist lawyer in CPS Mersey Cheshire’s Rape and Serious Sexual Offences (RASSO) unit, said: “Saikou Camara was working as a taxi driver when he committed this offence.

"His victim entrusted him with her safety when she got into his taxi, but he abused that trust and sexually assaulted her. He had no right to treat the victim as he did. He has shown no remorse for his actions.

"The Crown Prosecution Service would like to thank the victim for her courage and determination to see her attacker brought to justice.

"This is one of the key areas of work for the CPS. We hope that the conviction and jailing of this offender helps the victim to move on with her life and sends a message to other potential victims that we will listen and strive to achieve justice.”

I do hope he qualifies to be exported to Rwanda on his release

Although personally I would love to see the government do a deal to send them to Afghanistan the Taliban will sort them out good and proper

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Surprised the CPS did an article on this, but at least the source should know their stuff.

As for the guilty chap, well I hope he enjoys his time in prison. Don't think he is going to be too popular there.

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Except that I'd put money on him being a PHD rather than a 'taxi' driver

Anyway, the BBC has dutifully rehashed the CPS news release, but still no sign of it on the Echo's website.

But maybe it's because that's often the way things work these days. Some stuff in the paper version of the newspaper won't be online, and vice versa.

Or maybe the Echo has just ignored it, or are unaware of it because they didn't have a reporter covering it, or because the news release is on the CPS website rather than maybe being sent it by Merseyside Police.


Taxi driver jailed for sexually assaulting 16-year-old passenger

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-m ... e-61931839

A taxi driver who sexually assaulted a 16-year-old passenger has been jailed for three years.