Taxi driver's dashcam recorded his sex offences

Imran Yaseen has been jailed after pleading guilty to three counts of sexual assault

A taxi driver has been jailed for 16 months after his own dashcam recorded him sexually assaulting a female passenger.

Police say Imran Yaseen targeted the woman at about 23:00 GMT on 14 February after picking her up in Nottingham city centre.

The victim, a woman in her 30s, was sat in the front passenger seat when the 40-year-old began making inappropriate comments and touching her leg.

Nottinghamshire Police said he later pulled over near Clifton and subjected the woman to a serious sexual assault.

Yaseen was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday

Yaseen was arrested the following day after the taxi firm identified him.

His car was then seized along with an internal facing dashboard camera installed to protect him and other drivers from harm, the force said.

When officers downloaded the footage, they were able to see and hear the entire incident.

Yaseen, of Burnside Road, Bilborough, pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual assault at Nottingham Crown Court in March.

'Opportunist assault'

He was sentenced at the same court on Thursday.

In addition to his prison sentence, Yaseen was made subject to a sexual harm prevention notice that will stop him from driving a taxi when he is released and placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years.

PC Tom Gregory said: "This was an opportunist assault on a vulnerable female passenger and I am pleased Yaseen has now been jailed.

"The victim in this case put her trust in him to take her home safely and he utterly abused that trust by subjecting her to a prolonged sexual assault.

“Thanks to the evidence contained on his own dashcam camera, he had little option but to plead guilty and will now spend a significant amount of time in time in prison."