A taxi-driver has gone on trial charged with sexually-assaulting a 20 year old woman in his cab in Letterkenny.
Jacob Okornoe, of 57 The Elms, Letterkenny has pleaded not guilty to the charge that he sexually assaulted the young woman on November 28th, 2010.
The father of three appeared at Letterkenny Circuit Court today.
The court was told that Okornoe, 35, put his hand on the young woman’s leg and made suggestive advances towards her.
The woman, who cannot be named, told the court that she had been out at her Christmas party with colleagues and got a taxi home.
Another man in the taxi got out and she headed home in the front passenger seat.
She claimed just five minutes into the journey, the driver starting talking suggestively to her.
“He said I was making him hard and that I was a good looking girl. He put his left hand on my right leg and started rubbing it. I pushed him off and told him to stop – he did it again and I was really frightened.
“I understood that hard meant is that I was making his penis hard,” she said.
The young woman asked to get out of the taxi but the driver locked the doors and didn’t speak for the rest of the journey.
“I was really scared” said the woman.
She eventually arrived at a friend of her sister’s house and told them what had happened.
Later that day she made a complaint to Gardai.
The trial continues before Judge John O’Hagan.
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