Judge reserves decision at Halifax taxi driver’s sexual assault trial
HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has reserved her decision in the case of a Halifax taxi driver accused of groping a female passenger.
Closing arguments were made Thursday at the trial of Seyed Mirsaeid-Ghazi, who is facing one charge of sexual assault in an alleged October 2015 incident.
The Crown alleges Mirsaeid-Ghazi rubbed the woman’s thigh and slid his hand down the top of her dress and touched her bare breast as she sat in the front seat of his cab.
“There is no reason for (her) to fabricate these allegations,” prosecutor Josie McKinney said of the alleged victim, whose name is protected by a publication ban.