By Margaret Scheikowski
News.com.au
February 12, 2009 02:07pm
A SYDNEY taxi driver who raped three female passengers in separate attacks offered one victim up to $50 after sexually assaulting her.
Two of Hassan Nagi's victims were heavily intoxicated, one having earlier vomited, and were on their way home when they were attacked, the NSW District Court has been told.
Nagi, 37, of Bexley, has pleaded guilty to the attacks on each of the women, aged 31, 23 and 27. His DNA linked him to the crimes in June 2003, December 2006 and June 2007.
Judge James Bennett is hearing sentencing submissions.
According to the statement of facts tendered by prosecutor Trevor Bailey, the first victim had been drinking and left a Kings Cross nightclub after feeling sick.
She vomited while outside then lost her memory until she woke up in the front seat of a taxi driven by Nagi.
He tried to grope her before stopping his cab in an unknown dark grassy area where he grabbed her and led her to a large orange crate.
Despite her saying no and saying she had to go, Nagi twice sexually assaulted her before saying: "I'll pay you $20''.
When she replied no, he increased it to $50.
"This is the last thing the victim can remember before she remembers walking back into the Le Panic Club in Kings Cross,'' the facts said.
The second victim also had been at a Kings Cross nightclub, where she became very intoxicated.
"About 3am, the victim contacted her boyfriend and stated that she was seated in the gutter and was planning on catching a taxi home,'' the facts said.
Her next memory was being in the taxi, falling in and out of consciousness, and then the driver getting in the back seat with her.
Nagi forced himself on top of the victim, who unsuccessfully struggled during the attacks.
Her next memory was ringing her boyfriend and telling him what had happened. She was then taken by ambulance to hospital for treatment.
The third victim had been at a football match when she received a phone call from a man who identified himself as her work associate, Mohammed.
They talked of possibly meeting up at Kogarah and she later had a second call when he said he was waiting outside the grounds in a taxi.
However, when she got into a taxi which flashed its headlights at her, she saw it was another man who said he was a friend of Mohammed's.
She asked him to pull over, but Nagi continued driving, speaking on his mobile saying: "She's f###g beautiful man''.
He drove her to an isolated industrial area, where he twice sexually assaulted her.
When she reported the attack to police, her mobile phone revealed the number that had been used to ring her was Nagi's.
He was arrested and DNA retrieved from his hair sample was found to match all three incidents.
Judge Bennett continued Nagi's bail and adjourned the matter to April 23 at Parramatta District Court.
