Taxi driver found guilty of sexually assaulting passenger

A Stoke-on-Trent taxi driver will be sentenced next month after being found guilty yesterday of sexually assaulting a passenger.

A court was told, a woman had booked a taxi to take her from Crewe to a friend’s house in Audley in April 2018. Najibullah Hakani stopped off during the journey just off the A500 near to fields when the incident happened. A DNA sample from clothing provided a link to Hakani.

The 27-year-old from Osborne Road in Stoke, was found guilty of one count of sexual assault.