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.
An Uber driver who raped a teenager he picked up and kept her license as a trophy has been jailed for seven years.
Sakaria Taufao, 51, from New Zealand, was sentenced on Friday after a jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting the 18-year-old in Ipswich on September 5, 2015.
Last December, he was found not guilty of three other counts of rape relating to another passenger in 2017 - but details of that case were kept secret from the jury in his most recent trial.
Taufao had lured the drunk girl into his car as she walked home from the Club Metro nightclub in Ipswich about midnight by asking her if she wanted a lift.