KUALA LUMPUR: A taxi driver was given the maximum sentence of 20 years jail by the Session Court here yesterday for raping a 21-year-old saleswoman in the back seat of his vehicle three years ago.
In passing the sentence that included eight strokes of the rotan, Judge Akhtar Tahir said that he could not find any mitigating factor for a lesser jail term for 30-year-old Abdul Ghani Abdul Karim.
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