Taxi driver cleared of charges of molesting a female passenger while driving her home inEast Kilbride.
Tony Lennon was accused of taking a drunken 18-year-old boy in a taxi.
However, after his week-long trial in Hamilton Sheriff's Court, a jury rendered an unproven verdict.
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Lennon, 56, Sheriff Colin Dunipas of Parkhead in Glasgow said "thank you" when she told him he was acquitted and free to leave. He claimed that the woman had consented to have sex in his taxi on May 22, 2019. night out.
He said: It should never have happened. It was ridiculous."
Lennon said the woman was "clearly lying" when she said she disagreed with the jury. 42} Read more
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Prosecutor Neil Thomson, however, accused Lennon of "lying" after driving a drunken passenger home.
Mr. Thomson asked the jury: "Would an 18-year-old girl find a gray-haired, presumably fat, particularly attractive man in his fifties?
"This is a desperate man with a desperate story trying to save his own neck." I deliberated.
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