A man who raped a 19-year-old student in the back of his taxi has been jailed nearly two decades after committing the crime.

Mahbubur Rahman, 50, picked up his victim who was trying to get back to a party in Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the early hours of 6 October 2006.

Although she reported the attack at the time, the driver was not identified, and the case was closed in 2009, before a DNA sample collected from Rahman for an unrelated matter in 2022 matched that taken from the student.

At Leicester Crown Court on Wednesday, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Rahman, of Jane Street in Chadderton, Oldham, had been found guilty of one count of rape by a jury last month following a four-day trial.

Standing in the dock next to an interpreter, he was told he would serve two thirds of his sentence in custody, minus the time he had spent on remand, and the rest of it on licence.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0ex93d5ddzo

Posted by OneNormalBloke

9 comments

  2. Why would he need an interpreter after living here for at least 19 years. People can be born, learn a language, grow up and join the workforce in that amount of time.
    And not understanding the wording of the law can’t be right, since we can be tried and go to prison younger than that, so with much less practice of the English language since birth.

  4. Been here almost two decades still doesn’t know the language I guess this is the integration we hear so much about.

  6. For those understandably wondering about the translator. I worked in Oldham and met people who have been here over 50 years who could barely speak a word of English.

    They don’t have to as they live in insular areas where they can manage without it. Plus the rest of us pay for their translators when needed.

    We should look to follow Denmark and deport those who don’t integrate.

    And yes I think the same for the British pensioners in Spain. They should learn Spanish.

  9. “Mahbubur Rahman, 50, picked up his victim who was trying to get back to a party in Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the early hours of 6 October 2006.”

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