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Fake Uber driver jailed for sex assaults
Thursday March 11, 2021
A fake Uber driver who prowled one of Brisbane’s busiest party precincts and sexually assaulted women on the ride home has been jailed for at least 18 months.
A district court jury found Sampath Samaranayake guilty on all charges. Photo: ABC
Sampath Sandaruwan Samaranayake, 44, posed as an Uber driver to lure women into his car in the early hours of September 2018.
The jury took less than three hours to find Samaranayake assaulted five women in separate attacks, forcing them to touch him on the ride home.
He also touched, kissed and exposed himself to the…
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