Four adult men were each sentenced to 17 years in jail for engaging in the gang rape of a drunken woman in one of the individual's taxi. Bradford Crown Court heard how taxi-driver Tamseel Virk picked up the intoxicated victim as she was leaving a friend's birthday in Leeds, and began driving to a destination she had not specified. Passing out during the journey, the victim awoke to find that she was being taken advantage of after already being violated by one of the other conspirators.
Together with the 42- year-old driver Tamseel Virk, Najim U-Saeed, 31, Wakar Akhtar, 21, and Azad Raja, 38, pre-arranged the attack with the court hearing that 15 phone calls were made between Virk and the other perpetrators. The judge stated: 'On that day, as was her right, she enjoyed at the birthday party a number of drinks. That is part, gentlemen, of our culture (…) This (their actions) was totally despicable, it was utterly callous, it was a degree of inhuman behaviour hard, even for one such as myself inured to evil, to understand.'
The victim who works as a teacher said: “I felt I had the identity and everything I had worked for kicked out of me (…) Something so horrific and personal has happened.”
