Married Uber driver Muhammad Durrani was jailed for 12 years for raping a woman he picked up in July last year

An Uber driver who raped a passenger on the back seat of his car and took selfies of them together has been jailed for 12 years.

Married Muhammad Durrani, 38, attacked the 27 year-old after picking her up outside a live music club in Clapham, south London.

He followed his victim out of the car when they reached her home and carried her back to his Toyota where he performed a sex act before raping her.

Durrani, of Streatham, south London, had claimed the woman hugged and kissed him, then went back to the car and grabbed at him after stripping for sex, Southwark Crown Court heard.

Judge David Tomlinson told Durrani: ‘I have carefully read the victim impact statement and it comes as no surprise that you have ruined her life.

‘It has affected all aspects both social and professional - the harm that you did that night was incalculable.

‘My impression of her was of someone who looked as though she had been immeasurably hurt, she looked and sounded really quite struck by what had happened.

‘I think for her to come here to further think back to that night was for her a tremendously distressing experience.

‘She fell asleep in the back of your cab and it was a warm enough evening for her to be wearing an all-in-one playsuit.

‘By then it must have been obvious to you that your customer was almost paralytically drunk.

‘Under the pretext of offering help you got out of your cab and approached her, that ought to have been the end of it but you had by then lost all sense of self control.'

Durrani picked up his victim outside a live music club in Clapham, south London after she ordered an Uber car to take her home

He said he carried her back to the car and carried out a sex act, then raped her, and took selfies of the two of them 'side by side.'

The victim had been with friends in London Bridge and Clapham before ordering the Uber and had drunk around ‘six medium or large glasses of wine’ throughout the evening.

She told the court: ‘I remember thinking I was feeling quite drunk, I need to go home because I thought that was the safest option.

The woman said she was ‘confused’ and ‘bewildered’ when Durrani picked her up in the early hours of July 24 last year, and didn’t shout out.

Judge David Tomlinson at Southwark Crown Court said Durrani of Streatham, south London, had done 'incalculable' damage to his victim

‘I don’t remember anything being said, I just remember being scared’, she said.

‘I was obviously very, very drunk, and he was the sober driver who picked me up and took me to the back of his car without my wanting him to.

‘He picked me up, he carried me to his car, I ended up in the back of his car.'

She said he gave her 'no formal consent' to carry out a sex act, and said the next thing she remembers is just 'lying there' as he removed her clothes.

Durrani admitted having sex but said it was consensual after he succumbed to her advances.

He said: ‘She went into my car herself. She was right outside her front door. She hugged me with her own free will. I tried to avoid her a few times.

‘I tried to control myself for some time but how far could I have controlled myself?’

He claimed the woman was ‘making noises like she was enjoying it’.

The court also heard Durrani took pictures of his victim’s body and of them lying together.

He told police he deleted the photos because he was a ‘family man’ and his wife might find them.

Durani will return to Pakistan after his time in jail and family members submitted character references on his behalf.

Durrani claimed the sex was consensual and denied one count of rape and one of assault by penetration, but a jury found him guilty of both.

Duranni was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for the rape and eight years for the assault, to run concurrently.

He hung his head as his wife watched on before he was led to the cells.

The judge also imposed an indefinite restraining order preventing him from contacting the victim and he cannot work for a taxi company in any capacity.

Transport for London announced last year that it would not be renewing Uber’s licence to operate in the capital, citing the firm’s approach to reporting serious criminal offences and background checks on drivers.

Uber is appealing against that decision.

A spokesman for Uber said: 'This was a horrific incident and we welcome this conviction.

'As soon as we heard what happened this licensed private hire driver was immediately stopped from using our app.

'Every trip on the Uber app is tracked by GPS and we worked closely with the Metropolitan Police to ensure this individual was brought to justice.'