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Taxi driver Muhammad Irshad was found guilty Monday of sexually assaulting an inebriated passenger in 2015.

In her ruling, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Michele Hollins concluded Irshad’s defence in questioning the credibility of the female victim wasn’t convincing.

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And though Irshad was never fully identified by sight, the woman’s testimony that she’d been assaulted in the back of his taxi was convincing.

“I find the complainant to be both reliable and credible,” said Hollins.

Court had heard the then-30-year-old woman had been drinking at the rodeo and chuckwagon races on the Stampede grounds and had continued the revelry at Milk Tiger, the Ship and Anchor and UNA Pizza.

After being picked up by a taxi on 17 Avenue S.W., a friend was dropped off and the victim was then to be driven home. The victim fell asleep or passed out in the cab en route to her Bankview home.

She testified she awoke in the vehicle to find the driver forcing her to perform oral sex, an encounter that lasted as long as a minute.