Premium Content An Uber driver who lured a teenager passenger into his car before raping her and A Brisbane District Court jury found Sakaria Taufao, 50, deliberately turned off his ride-share app before raping the 18-year-old in the back seat of his BMW sedan off a dirt road in Ipswich in 2015. It can now be revealed that Taufao had been accused of raping another young passenger in The Gap in 2017, but he was acquitted of all three rape charges after a trial in December. After the guilty verdict was handed down late on Friday afternoon, Judge Michael Burnett sentenced Taufao to seven years jail with no parole date for the cold and calculated attack.
Get off, you are going to kill him . These were the words a mother screamed as her son dealt face flattening blows to the man who had tormented them for years. The attack would land a young man with no criminal history in court, facing serious jail time. The troubling case rounded out the final 2020 sitting of the Hervey Bay District Court. There, a 21-year-old had arrived in court alone, placed his backpack on the ground and walked, head down to the dock where he pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm and assault. Crown Prosecutor Michael Gawrych said the defendant had arrived home after drinking and told the 52-year-old victim, who was in a relationship with his mother, that he wanted to fight him.