Taxi Driver Sexual Assault

• Halifax taxi driver charged with sexually assaulting passenger: police

  Halifax Regional Police charged a taxi driver with sexual assault after an incident on April 10. Police say the suspect picked up a fare in Halifax and sexually assaulted her.

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  May 19, 2023
  
• Woman sexually assaulted by Halifax taxi driver after being picked up downtown: police

  Halifax Regional Police say they have charged a taxi driver with sexually assaulting a female passenger.

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  Jun 30, 2022
  
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• Taxi driver convicted of sexual assault under arrest warrant, may have fled Canada

  A Crown prosecutor told a Nova Scotia court that Bassam Al-Rawi, convicted of a 2012 sexual assault in his Halifax cab, may now be in Baghdad, Iraq.

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  May 30, 2022
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• Former Halifax taxi driver Bassam Al-Rawi found not guilty of sexual assault

  Judge Ann Marie Simmons ruled that Bassam Al-Rawi was not guilty of sexually assaulting a woman who was found unconscious in the back of his taxi, naked from the waist down and intoxicated.

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  Sep 4, 2019
• Police photographs seen in court show scene of alleged sexual assault involving former Halifax taxi driver

  The alleged incident happened four years ago on May 23, 2015.

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  May 24, 2019
• Former Halifax taxi driver accused of sexual assault finishes testifying in retrial

  The court will be back in session on May 30th for closing submissions to Judge Ann Marie Simmons.

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  May 23, 2019
• Halifax cab driver accused of sexual assault returns to stand for second day

  Al-Rawi is expected to finish his cross examination on May 23, with additional court dates set aside on May 30 and 31.

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  Apr 18, 2019
• Former Halifax taxi driver Bassam Al-Rawi will face 2nd sexual assault trial

  Police had decided in March 2013 there was insufficient evidence to charge Al-Rawi in the case, but took another look at the file in 2017 and decided there were grounds for a sexual assault charge.

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  Feb 21, 2019
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• Hearing underway for Bassam Al-Rawi, former Halifax taxi driver accused of sexual assault

  There is a publication ban in place on evidence presented at the preliminary inquiry, which began Monday in Halifax provincial court before Judge Amy Sakalauskas.

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  Feb 4, 2019
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• Nova Scotia court rules that sister can’t appeal dead taxi driver’s sexual assault conviction

  William Roger MacLellan was convicted in 2016 after a university student accused him of molesting her in his taxi in Antigonish, N.S.

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  Jan 22, 2019