Cabbie sex offender remains at the wheel
Published: 17 May 11 12:31 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/33824/20110517/
A taxi-driver in Uppsala in central Sweden who was convicted of sexual harassment against a woman passenger last autumn can continue to drive his cab after appealing the verdict, despite two more reported offences.
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In January, Olsson was returning home after undergoing surgery at Enköping hospital. Suddenly the cabdriver put his hand on her chest and tried to let it wander down towards her groin.
Olsson tried to protect herself from the man’s roaming hands but she was weak from the operation and in severe pain.
“I was in a taxi with a man I didn’t know and I had no idea what he was capable of, so I was terribly frightened,” she told TV4.
She is shocked that he can continue to drive a cab considering the charges against him.
But at the Swedish Transport Agency (Transportstyrelsen) they say that there is little they can do.
“Before we can revoke a taxi licence the verdict has to gain legal force, which usually takes about three weeks. If the verdict is appealed we have to wait until the second verdict gains legal force,“ Rolf Arbin of the agency told the broadcaster.
Since harassing Johanna Olsson the man has yet again been reported. This time he allegedly groped and made sexual advances towards a severely ill woman in her seventies who was returning home from Uppsala hospital.
“The worst thing is that he is allowed to continue. No one knows how many women he has harassed,“ Olsson said to TV4.
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Don't they know what "suspending" is at Transportstyrelsen?????
Commit a victimless crime and expect the book thrown at you. Commit violence or any real crime and and you are a VIP in these parts.
Wow! The things you will do in the name of pubic...ermm.... errata....public service !?!***
#rquick
Whilst I totally agree this uncontrolled perv needs some punishment, I think hanging is a bit drastic, huh? Anyways, I think you make a very very valid point.
With "suspending" I meant to suspend his license (till court has reached a verdict). That will keep him off the street as well for now.
From a great height, with a rusty barbed wire noose, hanging over a bath of sulphuric acid, whilst slicing his nuts and then let him bleed to death.
Deported? Where to? What country do you think's going to agree to take in all of Sweden's sex offenders? And don't say their native countries because there's plenty of sex offenders who were, believe it or not, born in Sweden. If Sweden doesn't want them then I don't see why anywhere else would.
hmmm.. you are beginning to sound like one of Saddam Hussein's followers.
#rquick
sorry, I was teasing you by playing on the word. It also helped us both to promote your excellent idea.
You have no proof he was of foreign origin and as I said there are plenty of native Swedish sex offenders. Ever heard of Göran Lindberg? I'm not against deporting foreigners guilty of serious crimes and I think all sex offenders, regardless of their nationality, get let off far too lightly in Sweden. You should however stop using every single incident like this as an excuse for a pathetic racist rant. It's insulting to all of the women who have been attacked and abused by Swedes as you seem to be saying that the crimes they were subjected to never took place or are somehow less serious and worthy of attention than those perpetrated by immigrants.
Infart is the latest reincarnation of the oft banned American troll Tacos/Ravioli etc who comes on to TL to stir up dissent with his crap posts turning every story into a matter of immigrants
He will soon be banned again
There's no proof yet but we'll see. I don't know of too many Swedes driving black taxis but you're right. No one has been identified yet. I don't know any other way to put it but I know a lot of girls and they all tell me the same things about what they fear with certain types of people based on experience. I hate to be so vague but I'd like to make sure this doesn't get deleted.
@ Meth
As usual, having an opposing view is "stirring up dissent." All I said was that a crime of this nature deserves a deportation. And the majority of people here seem to agree. So either debate the topic or skip it please. Thanks.
You can NOT deport a citizen of any country. Citizenship means the right to live in that country.
You in your usual trolling habit are writing bullsh*t about something that you have no knowledge of.
If citizens of a country could be deported willy nilly you would have to live on Mars as nobody else would have you.
Infart seems to be reading a completely different story from this one. In his story, the driver is an immigrant and the taxi was a blacktaxi. None of which I have seen mentioned in the story or in the tv4 news.........weird
maybe when you need to create a new account when infart is banned you can choose fartbreath