UPDATE: Taxi driver arrested for alleged sex attack on teenage passenger

POLICE have yet to charge a taxi driver arrested in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a 17-year-old female passenger.

South Yorkshire Police confirmed this morning (12) that the 21-year-old remained on bail following the alleged incident on February 1.

The alleged offence happened in a taxi being operated by Venture Taxis, of Wath.

It later emerged that the firm — now running taxis re-badged under the name of sister firm Martini Taxis, of Masbrough — had been operating illegally after its licence lapsed.

A spokeswoman for Rotherham Borough Council revealed that an investigation is now underway to establish whether the firms’ owner is “fit and proper to run the Martini operation.”

 

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