2013: TAXI DRIVER JAILED AFTER TAKING SEXUAL ADVANTAGE OF A VULNERABLE FEMALE PASSENGER
AN Alcester taxi driver who engaged in ‘heavy petting’ with a vulnerable female passenger, has been jailed for six years.Grainger, whose life is now said to be in ruins, had pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to two offences of causing or inciting a person with a mental disorder impeding her free choice to engage in sexual activity.
Prosecutor Andrew Wilkins told how the woman, who was described as ‘a vulnerable adult’ with a mental capacity in the bottom one per cent of the population, had been a passenger in Grainger’s taxi.
On one journey to a swimming baths, not understanding how he was viewing her behaviour, she had undone some of her clothing to show him her swimming costume.
“Mr Grainger treated that behaviour inappropriately, and on two occasions when she was his passenger he invited her back to his house.
There they engaged in sexual activity.
They had their clothes off and engaged in heavy petting, during which he penetrated her with his finger; and it is also clear that he gave her oral sex,” said Mr Wilkins.
When things the woman was saying about Grainger concerned one of her friends, officers looked at her phone, finding texts of an intimate nature – although Grainger had deleted them from his phone in case his wife found them.
Grainger’s victim told police she was frightened by the activity, and not really consenting to it.
On arrest, Grainger said he believed her mental age was that of a late teenager.
Judge Sylvia de Bertodano told him he took advantage of the woman’s mental condition to engage in sexual activity with her.
She said: “She describes herself as being extremely frightened by what happened, and also having made it clear on at least one of those occasions that that was not what she wanted to do.
“You must have known she was highly vulnerable, and not at all in a position to consent to sexual activity with you.
This is a very serious criminal offence.”
