A WOMAN passenger was allegedly raped by a taxi driver late at night while being taken to see a relative.
A court heard that Huseyin Aydin asked her if she could pay for the fare in advance and then told her something like: “You can pay for it in another way”.
A jury at Preston Crown Court heard allegations that he locked the doors centrally and drove to a secluded spot on the journey from Lancaster to Morecambe.
There it is claimed he raped her, ignoring her pleas for him to stop.
Aydin, 48, a Turkish national of Easington, Lancaster, has gone on trial on two charges of rape, both of which he denies.
The allegations concern a night in February last year when the woman in her 20s rang Coastal Taxis just before midnight to take her from a Lancaster Hospital to see a relative…….Read full story from The Visitor
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