White Woman Tells of Terrifying Taxi Ride Where Paki Tried to Rape Her

Mirror
March 4, 2015

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Lily Wright was sexually assaulted by the Paki after her friend was dropped off and she was alone in the taxi with him.

 

A university student has told of her terrifying taxi ride when a cab driver took her to isolated woodland and sexually assaulted her – then demanded a £50 fare.

Lily Wright, 22, flagged down the taxi with friend Jamielee Smalldon following a night out.

But after dropping 21-year-old Miss Smalldon at her house Mohammed Iqbal, a father of three, drove Miss Wright to secluded woodland and sexually assaulted her.

He then drove her home – and ordered she pay him £50 for the journey.

Miss Wright, who said the encounter left her “paralysed with fear”, has now spoken of her ordeal.

She said: “After what he’d just done to me, I couldn’t believe he had the nerve to charge me.

“I knew it should only cost around £20 and I didn’t have the money but I was desperate to get home. So I told him I did.

“As soon as I saw my house I didn’t wait for him to stop, I opened the car door and fled. I was running for my life.”

Miss Wright, who attends university in Birmingham, where she is from, recounted how she met Jamielee for a night out in March 2012.

After a couple of drinks, the pair took a taxi to a club.

But when they reached the queue, she felt tired so the pair decided to get a cab home.

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Iqbal was found guilty of two sex attacks and it is thought he was guilty of many more.

 

“I dived in the back while Jamielee sat in the front,” she said.

“As we drove off I rummaged in my bag, I couldn’t find my phone anywhere I’d lost it.

“Jamielee was calm and said the driver could call to let her know when I got home.”

Miss Smalldon was dropped off at her house first.

Miss Wright said: “By the time we reached Jamielee’s house I was nodding off.

“To make sure I was okay she gave the driver her number and asked him to call her when I had safely arrived home. She thought she was looking out for me.

“Jamielee said goodbye then I moved to the front passenger seat so I could give the driver directions to my house.”

The taxi driver drove away in the wrong direction.

Miss Wright said: “Five minutes on, we were on a pitch black, quiet, country road.

“The driver stopped the car, and phoned Jamielee telling her I was home safely. But looking out the window I could see only trees.

“Confused and scared, I sat in silence, no idea why we’d stopped. All I could do was panic.”

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Jamilee Smalldon was dropped off before the attack on her friend Lily.

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