A taxi driver who sexually abused three women has walked free from prison after just three years.
Dublin Live has learned that pervert Mansoor Uddin, 44, was freed from prison at the end of last month. He was jailed for five years in 2019 and had been caged at Arbour Hill prison in Dublin.
Sources say Uddin engaged with services and classes behind bars and did not get into trouble while serving his sentence and was given a standard remission of a third off his sentence. Sources say Uddin, who had his taxi licence revoked, is now living in the Dublin area.
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The sex predator drew headlines and national outrage when it was initially feared he was still allowed to drive his taxi, under bail conditions which stipulated he could do so if he didn’t have female passengers in the front seat. However, gardai later clarified this was not the case and Uddin could not drive his taxi anymore.
His trial was told the married father of three sexually assaulted two of the women on the same night after demanding that one of them get out of his taxi when he saw her trying to get a photo of his identification.
An 18-year-old victim had also called a friend while in the vehicle and gave her Uddin’s name and some of his taxi number. She tried to take a photograph of Uddin but he stopped her.
Sergeant Aoife Cronin told prosecutor Sinead McMullan that gardai used CCTV footage, a database of registered public service vehicles and a computer generated likeness from the first victim to identify the attacker.
As part of the Garda investigation, officers also used GPS co-ordinates from the HALO app which confirmed he had travelled the three routes the women had outlined to gardai. Uddin, of Castleway, Adamstown, Lucan, Co Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to sexual assault on January 30, 2016 and two sexual assaults on February 16, 2016.
During his trial the court heard the first woman, a 19-year-old from Germany, continually pushed Uddin’s hand away as he rubbed her knee and leg while driving. He told her she had “a beautiful heart”.
He also touched her chest area and rubbed her cheek, telling her she was “the most beautiful girl of the night”. The second victim, a 20-year-old woman, said Uddin had brushed his hand down the side of her body and leaned in towards her as if to kiss her.
The third woman, an 18-year-old schoolgirl, got into Uddin’s taxi an hour later. He immediately began rubbing her leg telling her how soft her skin was. She pushed him away and he tried to get his hand into her underwear.
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