Taxi-driver Thurston Semple, charged with multiple rapes, was yesterday afternoon found guilty at his fist trial before the High Court and is now awaiting sentencing.
By a majority verdict of 10 to 2, a jury found Semple guilty of raping a sex-worker between February 24 and February 25 of last year.
The jury also found the 37-year-old guilty of assaulting the woman and causing her actual bodily harm. The verdict on the assault charge was unanimous.