Uber driver Sakaria Taufao jailed for raping teenage passenger

An Uber driver who kept a teenage passenger’s licence as a “trophy” for almost two years after he raped her on a secluded road in Ipswich, west of Brisbane, has been sentenced to seven years in jail.

Sakaria Taufao, 51, forced the 18-year-old to have “quick and rough” sexual intercourse in the back of his car at Redbank Plains in September 2015.

Prosecutors told the District Court in Brisbane that Taufao had approached the teenager while she was walking home from a nightclub in the Ipswich CBD and asked…