The court heard on the morning of Independence Day celebrations on June 1 last year, the victim who is a 20 year old tertiary student, got into a taxi after the march at Tuanaimato and asked the driver to drop her in town.
The young woman told the Court that there were no buses, so she jumped into a taxi at about 9am
The taxi driver, Latana Fretton instead took the young woman to an isolated spot where he raped her.
He then proceeded to drop her in town where she had originally intended to go.
