A taxi driver has been jailed for kidnapping and raping a teenage passenger.
Saeed Shaikh, pictured, who held the woman against her will and raped her, has today been found guilty at Leicester Crown Court. He denied kidnap, rape and sexual touching, but was convicted after a six day trial.
The 41-year-old picked his victim up in Leicester city centre in the early hours of March 5, and was asked to take her to an address Leicestershire. Instead of taking her where she had asked him to, he stopped the Toyota Auris in the country lanes around Barkby, and sexually assaulted her. He got out of the driver’s seat, got into the back of the car with her and raped her.
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison and he will also be the subject of a lifetime Sexual Harm Prevention Order and will be placed on the Sexual Offender’s Register.
