rsherdley published Taxi driver jailed for eight years for raping a passenger

A jury found Shapoor Azimi guilty of attacking a 22-year-old student in the back of his cab after picking her up in Nottingham city centre.And sentencing the 37-year-old cabbie, Judge Timothy Spencer raised concerns over how he was allowed to work on the streets of Nottingham - after he had been in trouble twice before for kerb-crawling, in 2011 and 2006.After the hearing, a Nottingham City Council spokesman said his previous caution and conviction for kerb-crawling should have been spotted and.