Women speak of rape impact, as taxi driver to be sentenced, Shorten will be Sentenced on 22th of July.The court heard Shorten has seven children and had a good relationship with them, before going into custody in 2022. He had been a factory worker and a milkman before becoming a taxi driver. Many women, will not feel Safe, getting into a Taxi at night, again, the point is, Most Taxi Drivers, are Decent, Law Abiding people.

A 50-year-old taxi driver who targeted vulnerable women on their way home at night will be sentenced later this month for rape.

Raymond Shorten, from Melrose Crescent, Clondalkin in Dublin, was found guilty of raping two young women on separate nights in June and August 2022.

A jury found him guilty of the charges last month by unanimous verdict.

The prosecution said the young women were vulnerable because they were intoxicated and Shorten had preyed on their incapacity.