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Taxi driver jailed for raping woman on her way home from night out
Prosecutors said Thomas Tosh used GPS deception and forensic evidence to secure a conviction and an indefinite sex offenders register listing.
- On Tuesday, April 7, 2026, the High Court in Glasgow sentenced taxi driver Thomas Tosh to seven years in prison for raping a 23-year-old passenger he picked up from a night out.
- Tosh collected the victim and her friends from a Clydebank pub during the early hours of September 30, 2023, then deactivated his taxi's GPS to drive her to his Drumchapel residence instead of her intended destination.
- Prosecutors presented DNA results, text messages, and witness accounts to secure the conviction, proving Tosh attacked the woman while she was intoxicated and incapable of consenting.
- Procurator Fiscal for High Court Sexual Offences Faye Cook described the crime as a "despicable betrayal of trust," while the court granted a 10-year non-harassment order banning contact with the victim.
- Tosh's name was added to the sex offenders register indefinitely, with prosecutors pledging to use "every tool available" to pursue those who abuse women and girls.
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Taxi driver who raped woman in ‘despicable betrayal of trust’ jailed
Thomas Tosh attacked the woman after picking her up from a night out.
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