The 32-year-old, of Kildare Road, Nottingham, attacked the woman in Elm Bank Drive, Mapperley Park, on 4 February.<\/p>\n
The victim gave him \u00a310, Nottingham Crown Court heard, thinking he was a cab driver but when she tried to leave the car, he locked the doors.<\/p>\n
Mostafa, a married man, stopped at a petrol station in Nottingham city centre to buy condoms during their drive.<\/p>\n
Mostafa denied raping the woman, saying\u00a0the she ‘wanted some fun’ and ‘wanted sex’.<\/p>\n
The victim asked Mostafa for a lift, Nottinghamshire Police said, after she had tried but failed to hail a taxi on Sneinton Dale following a night out.<\/p>\n
Mostafa agreed to take the woman, but after dropping off two other people and taking her money, he parked in Elm Bank Drive, locked the doors and raped her.<\/p>\n
According to Mostafa, who is married, she said \u201cthank you\u201d to which he responded, \u201cyou\u2019re welcome\u201d.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Clive Stockwell asked Mostafa, “You are telling the jury she was absolutely desperate to have sex with you?”<\/p>\n
He replied, “Yes”.<\/p>\n
The court heard that the woman had told Mostafa that she was gay and in a happy relationship.<\/p>\n
“It was dead stupid. I shouldn’t even have got into the car. My phone had died. I didn’t know where I was,\u201d she told police in an interview.<\/p>\n
The victim said that after they left the petrol station, she told Mostafa \u201cjust here will do\u201d, to which he responded, \u201cyou are not getting out here\u201d.<\/p>\n
“I said ‘can you please just unlock the doors? I want to get out and go home’,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n
She said, “I kept saying to him ‘I don’t want that. I don’t do that,\u201d after he ran his hand up her thigh but Mostafa refused to let her go.<\/p>\n
The court heard his DNA was recovered from a condom found at the scene and his fingerprints were also on the condom packet.<\/p>\n
The victim’s “immense bravery” was praised by Detective Chief Inspector Leigh Sanders who encouraged anyone who had been a victim of a rape or sexual assault to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Farhad Mostafa was jailed for eight years for raping a woman in his car after she believed she was getting into a taxi. The 32-year-old, of Kildare Road, Nottingham, attacked the woman in Elm Bank Drive, Mapperley Park, on 4 February. The victim gave him \u00a310, Nottingham Crown Court heard, thinking he was a cab […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":24064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}