From the New York Daily News

A perverted Uber driver has been jailed for eight months for sexually assaulting a woman in his cab in London.

Samson Haile, 32, told his 26-year-old passenger that he wanted to have sex with her, before touching her inappropriately.

The woman managed to flee the creep’s cab on Cromwell Road and alert police,according to Mirror Online.

Later in the same evening he picked up a female off-duty police officer and also tried to talk her into sex.

When she filed a report the next day, cops linked it to the previous evening’s sexual assault. They quickly identified and arrested Haile, expressing concern about the “rapid escalation” in his behavior.

“He went from talking about sex to actually touching a lone, vulnerable female in a very short space of time,” said Detective Constable Carly Driscoll.

“I would like to praise the victim for having the confidence and courage to report her ordeal to police.”

Haile, from Brentford in west London, was found guilty of sexual assault on Sept. 3 and hit with his jail sentence Wednesday.

He was also made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order, prohibiting him from working as a private hire driver in England or Wales.

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