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Former army translator jailed for raping woman in private hire car
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A former translator for the British Army who raped a woman after becoming a private hire driver in Scotland has been jailed for seven years.
Abdul Nabizada attacked the 19-year-old after failing to take her home from a night out in Edinburgh in 2021.
Judge John Morris KC told Nabizada he had committed an "appalling betrayal of trust" during sentencing after he was found unanimously guilty at a High Court trial last month.
Nabizada, a father of four who lived in the Pilton area of Edinburgh, had applied for British citizenship after coming to the UK in 2016.
He had been a tailor in Afghanistan, but also worked with military personnel, translating his native Farsi alongside Dari, Pashto, Urdu and Arabic.