Posted on the 3rd November 2025 in PHTM News

DNA BREAKTHROUGH JAILS TAXI DRIVER TWO DECADES AFTER LOUGHBOROUGH RAPE

A former taxi driver has finally been sentenced to 12 years in prison for the rape of a young woman in Loughborough almost two decades ago, a case that was solved after a DNA match following his arrest for an unrelated crime.

Mahbubur Rahman, now 50, was found guilty following a trial at Leicester Crown Court in September 2024.

The conviction relates to an attack on a 19-year-old Loughborough University student in the early hours of Saturday, October 7, 2006.

Rahman, then aged 31, picked the woman up in the street, stopped at a cash machine in Greenclose Lane, and subsequently drove her to the George Deacon Court car park on Chestnut Street, where he raped her in his car.

While DNA evidence was recovered at the time, it did not match anyone on the police database, and the case was filed away in 2009.

The breakthrough came years later, in April 2022, when Rahman was arrested on suspicion of burglary. A mouth swab taken during that arrest provided an exact DNA match to the samples recovered from the 2006 rape scene.

Rahman, of Chadderton, Greater Manchester, was sentenced on October 29.

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

"He has evaded justice for far too long and throughout has shown no remorse or regret for what he did.

"I am pleased he has now been made to answer for the crime but also relieved for the victim that the man who caused irreversible damage to her life now faces years behind bars."


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