Posted: Jan 07, 2021 2:20 PM AT | Last Updated: January 8
Bassam Al-Rawi was granted bail on Thursday. He will be allowed to return to Germany until his appeal hearing in June.(Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
A former Halifax taxi driver sentenced to two years in prison last month for sexually assaulting a woman eight years ago has been granted bail and will be allowed to return to Germany while he awaits his appeal hearing in June.
Bassam Al-Rawi filed a notice of appeal through his lawyer on Dec. 30. In August, he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in his Bedford, N.S., apartment in 2012, after he picked her up in his taxi while she was lost downtown.