‘Predatory’ cabbie gets 10 months in jail
Akram Al Khalifa, 38, of Fredericton, groped drunken woman in his taxi, placed her hand on his penis in 2022; length of stint behind bars means refugee now inadmissible in Canada
While rejecting a Crown argument for the maximum jail term, a judge said Friday a cab driver’s “predatory behaviour” toward a vulnerable fare required a sentence that denounces his breach of trust.
Akram Al Khalifa, 38, of Hawkins Street in Fredericton, was back before Judge Scott Brittain in Fredericton provincial court to hear his decision on sentence.
The offender was found guilty after trial of summary counts of sexual assault and an indecent act that he perpetrated against a woman in his cab in Fredericton on March 12, 2022.
Evidence at trial showed Al Khalifa picked up the intoxicated woman - whose identity is protected by a court-ordered publication ban - that night.