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A former taxi driver was found guilty of raping an intoxicated student in his cab almost two decades ago.

Mahbubur Rahman was arrested on suspicion of burglary in 2022. Before this, the 50-year-old from Jane Street, Chadderton , had not been known to police.

While in custody, as part of standard procedure, a mouth swab was taken to obtain his DNA and ran through the policing database. Rahman's sample was found to a precise match to DNA samples recovered at the time of an unsolved rape case.

Nearly 20-years ago, the then 31-year-old Rahman was working as a taxi driver in the Loughborough area of Leicestershire.

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In the early hours of Saturday 7 October 2006, Rahman had picked up the victim, who was a student at Loughbor

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