Posted on the 4th September 2025 in PHTM News

FORMER LOUGHBOROUGH CABBIE CONVICTED OF 2006 RAPE DUE TO DNA MATCH AFTER 2022 BURGLARY

A former Loughborough taxi driver, Mahbubur Rahman, has been convicted of a 2006 rape after a DNA sample taken during an unrelated arrest nearly two decades later linked him to the crime.

Rahman, now 50, was found guilty of rape on 3 September, at Leicester Crown Court following a trial. He is scheduled to be sentenced at a later date.

The victim, a 19-year-old woman at the time, was intoxicated when she got into Rahman's taxi in the early hours of October 7, 2006. She reported the sexual assault to police immediately after arriving home.

Although an investigation was launched, the case was filed away in 2009 after all leads were exhausted.

The breakthrough came in April 2022, when Rahman, who had no prior criminal record, was arrested for an unrelated burglary. As part of standard police procedure, a mouth swab was taken and his DNA was entered into the policing database.

This sample provided an "exact DNA match" to the semen samples collected at the time of the rape.

Detective Constable Kristina Page-Brown, the officer in the case, noted the significance of the conviction for the victim, who "has waited 19 years to get some sort of resolution and justice for the traumatic ordeal she was subjected to that night."

Rahman initially denied the offence, later claiming the sexual encounter was consensual.

"The victim trusted Rahman to take her home after a night out in Loughborough," DC Page-Brown said. "Instead, he abused that trust and took advantage of a vulnerable woman in the worst way imaginable."

She added that Rahman has "evaded justice for far too long and throughout has shown no remorse or regret for what he did."

The detective expressed relief that the victim can now see the man who "caused irreversible damage to her life" finally face justice.


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