Post by acnedriver on Feb 22, 2023 8:58:36 GMT
A taxi driver carried out a sickening sexual assault on his passenger after she fell asleep in the back of his vehicle.
Lucel Tugui drove past the woman's home and instead took her to a remote location, where he performed a series of vile acts on her. But the "devious predator" was caught out after the incident was recorded by a CCTV camera inside his car, with the footage having captured him "smugly" saying "she has no clue what happened" after dropping his victim off following his attack.
A trial at Liverpool Crown Court, prosecuted by Paul Becker, previously heard that she had attended a friend's birthday party at a property in Liverpool city centre on the evening of Sunday, July 31, last year. But she "drank too much too quickly and became very drunk", being called a taxi as others moved onwards to nearby bars.
The young woman in her 20s was helped into Tugui's taxi at around 1.30am on August 1 "in a very vulnerable position and obviously sick". But while her journey home should have taken under half an hour to complete, she did not arrive until nearly an hour-and-a-half later.
The Delta driver had instead continued past her address after she had fallen asleep and taken her to a "secluded location" in Knowsley. There, Tugui - of Maureen Walk in Fazakerley - stopped his car and switched off his engine and was then caught on camera, in what was described as "extremely disturbing" video footage, performing sex acts on the complainant and forcing her to perform a sex act.
She later told police that she had woken up during the 33-year-old's attack but kept her eyes shut and did not move out of fear. The woman believed she was going to be raped and thought he would kill her if she stopped him.
After eventually dropping her at home, the Romanian national was captured "smugly" saying "she has no clue what happened to her" in his native tongue. Tugui, who was assisted by an interpreter in court, later claimed he had merely been "trying to wake her" for 20 minutes in the back of the taxi.
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/taxi-driver-bragged-sleeping-passenger-26291828#
Lucel Tugui drove past the woman's home and instead took her to a remote location, where he performed a series of vile acts on her. But the "devious predator" was caught out after the incident was recorded by a CCTV camera inside his car, with the footage having captured him "smugly" saying "she has no clue what happened" after dropping his victim off following his attack.
A trial at Liverpool Crown Court, prosecuted by Paul Becker, previously heard that she had attended a friend's birthday party at a property in Liverpool city centre on the evening of Sunday, July 31, last year. But she "drank too much too quickly and became very drunk", being called a taxi as others moved onwards to nearby bars.
The young woman in her 20s was helped into Tugui's taxi at around 1.30am on August 1 "in a very vulnerable position and obviously sick". But while her journey home should have taken under half an hour to complete, she did not arrive until nearly an hour-and-a-half later.
The Delta driver had instead continued past her address after she had fallen asleep and taken her to a "secluded location" in Knowsley. There, Tugui - of Maureen Walk in Fazakerley - stopped his car and switched off his engine and was then caught on camera, in what was described as "extremely disturbing" video footage, performing sex acts on the complainant and forcing her to perform a sex act.
She later told police that she had woken up during the 33-year-old's attack but kept her eyes shut and did not move out of fear. The woman believed she was going to be raped and thought he would kill her if she stopped him.
After eventually dropping her at home, the Romanian national was captured "smugly" saying "she has no clue what happened to her" in his native tongue. Tugui, who was assisted by an interpreter in court, later claimed he had merely been "trying to wake her" for 20 minutes in the back of the taxi.
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/taxi-driver-bragged-sleeping-passenger-26291828#