Taxi driver who raped 18-year-old passenger jailed

Tuesday 13th December 2016 20:10 EST
 

A taxi driver who picked a teenage woman up from outside a pub in Birmingham and then subjected her to a sustained rape ordeal has been jailed for 10 years.

The 18-year-old victim was left profoundly traumatised by the attack and had considered committing suicide.

Insanullah Sarfaraz, 33, who had previously admitted three charges of rape, was ordered to register as a sex offender for life.

Judge Mukherjee also made an indefinite sexual harm prevention order banning Sarfaraz, who is married and has four children, from working as a taxi driver in the UK. The victim had gone with a male friend to the Village Inn in Hurst Street and they decided to go home at around 5am on October 23.

When they came out there were quite a number of taxis and they saw a Toyota people carrier with a taxi symbol being driven by the defendant. They told him they needed to go to addresses in Erdington and Sarfaraz stopped on two occasions to allow the male to withdraw £15 from an ATM.

On the second occasion the defendant had turned round to face the woman, who was quite intoxicated, and told her she needed a massage and rubbed her thigh.

Sarfaraz eventually took the woman to her home where she told her parents what had happened to her. He was later traced by police and linked to the offence through DNA evidence.




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