KULDIP CHAHAL

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Kuldip Chahal, fifty-one, from Blyth in Northumberland, received a ten-year extended sentence after being convicted of kidnapping a woman in Newcastle.

Northumbria Police said the woman became separated from friends after a night out in December twenty twenty-five.

Chahal approached her, guided and dragged her through crowded streets, claimed he would take her home and forced her into his car.

Plain-clothes officers monitoring vulnerability in the night-time economy had already noticed the interaction.

Working with CCTV operators, they stopped the vehicle before it drove away and safeguarded the woman.

Investigators established Chahal was not a licensed taxi driver and had approached other women that night.

A Newcastle Crown Court jury convicted him.

The judge imposed seven years in prison, three years on extended licence and a lifetime prevention order.