Taxi 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.

  Crime

  May 19, 2023
  
• 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.

  Canada

  May 30, 2022
  
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• Former Halifax taxi driver committed two acts of sexual offence, Crown tells court

  Judge Ann Marie Simmons will deliver her verdict on September 4th.

  Crime

  May 31, 2019
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• Defence lawyer questions female passenger’s consciousness in closing arguments at Al-Rawi trial

  Ian Hutchison defended his client's innocence, telling the court that no evidence was presented during the retrial to disprove the defences theory that the female passenger took her own pants off.

  Crime

  May 30, 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.

  Crime

  Feb 21, 2019
• Sexual assault charges lead to calls for more female taxi drivers in Halifax

  Owner of Lady Drive Her, Chriss McDow, says in the past week she's received an influx of calls from people wanting a female taxi driver.

  Canada

  Jan 11, 2019
• I wouldn’t have consented to sex with taxi driver, woman tells trial

  Al-Rawi faces a charge of sexual assault, after an acquittal was overturned last January by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.

  Crime

  Jan 9, 2019
• 121 complaints dismissed against Nova Scotia judge who said ‘clearly, a drunk can consent’

  The review committee said the threshold for finding judicial misconduct is high and that after reviewing the trial transcript, it found no evidence of "impermissible reasoning or bias."

  Canada

  Apr 4, 2018
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• New trial ordered for Bassam Al-Rawi, Halifax taxi driver acquitted of sexual assault

  Bassam Al-Rawi was charged in May 2015 after a Halifax Regional Police officer found a young woman passed out and partially naked in the back seat of his cab.

  Canada

  Jan 31, 2018
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• Crown appeals verdict in Halifax taxi sexual assault case

  The Nova Scotia Crown has announced they will appeal Judge Gregory Lenehan's acquittal of a Halifax taxi driver accused of sexual assault.

  Crime

  Mar 7, 2017