2025-04-10
'I would have been safer walking home alone in the dark': woman tells court of sex assault by taxi driver
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Counsel noted a custodial term would have an impact on Lakhlef's family and asked the court to consider suspending a portion of any sentence imposed. Having imposed sentence, Judge Nolan declined to suspend any portion of it. "It seems to me that he cannot learn from his time in custody; he will never learn.