Rapist who posed as taxi driver charged victim £20 ‘fare’ after attack

Three men who preyed connected and raped a lone pistillate person been sentenced to a combined full of 25 years successful prison.

Bakhtullah Safi, 18 Habibullah Ahmadzai, 18 and Kehan Safi, 26, each from Hull, targeted the pistillate by letting her into what she believed to beryllium a registered taxi aft she had been connected a nighttime retired with her friends.

The sickening onslaught took spot aft the trio picked the unfortunate up connected Ferensway successful Hull metropolis centre connected July 30 past year, Hull Crown Court heard.

Bakhtullah Safi, and Ahmadzai, were some recovered blameworthy of rape arsenic associated enterprise.

Kehan Safi was besides charged with rape and pleaded blameworthy to the complaint astatine an earlier hearing.

Yesterday, Bakhtullah Safi and Ahmadzai were some jailed for 8 years, portion Kehan Safi got 9 years.

The assemblage heard the pistillate saw a queue of cars and got into 1 of them, believing it to beryllium a taxi, conscionable aft midnight. She was raped soon after.

A large probe was launched by officers from Humberside Police’s Protecting Vulnerable Persons Team and the Major Crime Team.

Officers spent hours trawling and reviewing CCTV footage successful and astir Hull metropolis centre to place the conveyance successful question, arsenic good arsenic galore different enquiries successful bid to hint and place the suspects utilizing the car.

The footage captured the pistillate entering the conveyance and Bakhtullah driving distant towards Hull Royal Infirmary. The conveyance was identified arsenic being registered to Bakhtullah.

Further enquiries were conducted to hint the travel of the conveyance and it was discovered that Bakhtullah Safi dropped the pistillate astatine an code successful Hull wherever she was allowed to get retired of the car.

During the people of the journey, they continued to deceive the pistillate that it was a licensed taxi.

Bakhtullah Safi past demanded a £20 fare, which the pistillate refused earlier fleeing to safety.

All 3 men were arrested successful August past twelvemonth and were charged with rape.

A assemblage returned blameworthy verdicts for Bakhtullah Safi and Ahmadzai pursuing an eight-day proceedings astatine Hull Crown Court

Detective Constable Ashley Webster said: ‘Kehan Safi, Bakhtullah Safi and Habibullah Ahmadzai are what I tin lone picture arsenic ‘violent intersexual predators’ who subjected a lone pistillate who was connected her mode location from a nighttime retired with friends, to an utterly horrific onslaught for their ain intersexual desires.’

‘The pistillate has been incredibly brave passim the probe and tribunal proceedings. What she has been done is thing no-one should ever beryllium enactment through, and whilst this effect contiguous volition ne'er instrumentality distant the horrific acquisition and pain, I anticipation it goes immoderate mode successful allowing her to heal arsenic she continues to recover.’

‘We recognize the bravery and courageousness it takes to travel guardant and I privation to commend her for showing specified spot arsenic she has allowed america instrumentality these abhorrent men disconnected the streets of Humberside.’

Detective Inspector Jon Jeffs, who led the investigation, said: ‘We volition ne'er tolerate oregon condone immoderate signifier of unit against women oregon girls successful Humberside. Incidents of this quality ever person the highest level of dedicated response, arsenic DC Webster and the squad that were engaged successful this probe person demonstrated.’

‘We are committed to making our streets safer by thoroughly investigating reported offences, pursuing perpetrators, and bringing them to justness and successful doing truthful preventing further offending.’

‘To anyone who is oregon who whitethorn person been the unfortunate of rape oregon intersexual assault, I would impulse you to please, travel guardant and study it to us.

‘We volition perceive to you, and we volition bash each we tin to instrumentality enactment against those liable and bring them to justice. By moving intimately with different organisations, charities, and agencies, we tin besides guarantee you are offered the assistance and enactment that is needed pursuing these types of offences.’

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