A predatory sex beast who disguised his car as a taxi to pick up and rape young woman in Manchester has been jailed.
Amine Kacem, 24, prowled Manchester city centre looking for victims in a car on which he had deliberately put a large yellow sticker to make it look like a private hire vehicle. The sex attacker, also known as Nazim Hamido, abducted and twice raped the woman after she got in the back of the car on Sackville Street.
Kacem, who was on his first ever visit to Manchester, then calmly drove her back to her hotel. Judge Andrew Blake at Manchester Crown Court said he believed Kacem had deliberately posed as a taxi driver and put a ‘considerable amount of planning’ into the crime.
Neil Fryman, prosecuting, said: “She got in the vehicle thinking she was safe.”
The woman suffered a fractured right wrist in the attack, was left badly cut and bruised.
For several months, she feared that she had contracted HIV in the attack.
Mr Fryman said: “Psychologically, she has been affected because she’s now virtually housebound. She has been washing herself with bleach from time to time.”
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