A Perth taxi driver has failed in an appeal against his conviction for raping a female passenger. Source: AAP
A TAXI driver who raped a drunken hen's night passenger has failed to have his conviction quashed.
Amrit Pal Singh, 32, was found guilty by a District Court jury in Perth in February of one count of sexual penetration without consent.
He maintained the sex he had with the 25-year-old woman in his cab a year earlier was consensual but was convicted and sentenced to six years jail.
Singh attempted to have the conviction quashed on the grounds Judge Gillian Braddock erred in her directions to the jury.
But in a unanimous decision on Tuesday, his appeal was thrown out by the WA Court of Appeal.
The jury in Singh's trial heard his passenger had been very drunk after attending a hen's party in the afternoon and was refused entry to a nightclub in the inner north suburb of Leederville.
She got into his taxi to go home but he left the freeway and took her to a car park near bushland where he had sex with her.
Singh then drove the woman home, where her husband helped her inside and paid the $60 fare.
The woman complained to police the next day after waking up and recalling part of what had happened.
In sentencing Singh, Judge Braddock said his actions were opportunistic and for his own sexual gratification. She said he had not worn a condom, meaning the woman had to be screened for sexual diseases.
"Your conduct may cause some women to fear taking a taxi home when they need to," she said.
The judge also said Singh's crime could tarnish the reputations of all honest taxi drivers in Western Australia.
She said Singh, who arrived in Australia from India in 2006, had failed to show remorse or understand the enormity of his crime.
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