SEX ATTACKER POSED AS TAXI DRIVER TO ABDUCT NOTTINGHAM STUDENT
A bogus taxi driver posed as a cabbie to abduct and sexually assault a student in Nottingham city centre.Nottingham Crown Court heard how Kelvin Ndoro talked the young victim into getting into his car before driving her to a supermarket car park.
Once there he stroked her leg and tried to talk her into getting into the back of the vehicle.
The quick-thinking Nottingham Trent University student had already videoed the defendant carrying out the stroking and when he unlocked the doors of the car she fled and hid behind a low wall.
The incident took place around 4am on Sunday, May 18 at the car park of the Lidl supermarket on Mansfield Road.
Ndoro was identified from the video she took and ANPR evidence, was arrested, interviewed, and told officers he had been out in Sheffield and stopped in Nottingham “to get some food”.
In a victim impact statement, the student said she felt "embarrassed and stupid for getting in the car”.
The defendant, formerly of Whitehill Avenue, Luton and more recently of King Street, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, pleaded guilty to sexual assault.
In the court, Judge Mark Watson said: “The victim no longer feels safe walking in the city where she lives.
She is scared because she has now experienced being a vulnerable person assaulted by somebody with predatory behaviour.
“It is a sad reality that women feel unsafe when alone and your actions have contributed to that atmosphere of fear.
“You saw a sexual opportunity, you offered her a lift indicating you were a taxi driver no doubt giving her an element of trust and she accepted that and when you went the wrong way she told you to turn around, you didn’t.
She then told you to take her home and you didn’t.
Instead you drove her to a car park where the doors were locked and you sexually assaulted her.
She managed to get out, was hysterical, and was offered help by a group of young men, and they showed the other side of humanity, taking her to the safety of her boyfriend.
The prosecutor said Ndoro was identified from the video she took and from ANPR evidence, was arrested, interviewed and told officers he had been out in Sheffield and stopped in Nottingham “to get some food”.
The victim impact statement said she felt "embarrassed and stupid for getting in the car”.
Ndoro was handed a 15-month jail sentence, a 10-year sexual harm prevention order, and was placed on the sex offender register for 10 years.
