Thursday 2 June 2022 07:01 AM Fake Uber driver's sex assault on schoolgirl in Brunswick, Melbourne trends now
A vile predator who posed as an Uber driver to sexually assault a teenage girl who was just trying to get home later claimed she had 'made moves' on him.
But Melbourne detectives would quickly learn Pakistani student Faizan Abdullah, 29, was far worse than just a disgraceful liar.
A search of his mobile phone found it littered with some of the most despicable child abuse material going about, with children as young as six-months old featuring among a gallery of filth.
Faizan Abdullah will be sent back to Pakistan for sexually assaulting a teenager
Faizan Abdullah, 29, sexually assaulted a teenager who though she had been his Uber driver
Faizan Abdullah's brave victim fronted court to tell him how she had ruined her life (stock image)
Abdullah had been granted access into Australia as a student on the back of his PHD in Information Technology, of which he had written several scientific papers.
His victim, a 17-year old girl who had just started year 12, had enjoyed a night out with friends in trendy Fitzroy - just outside of Melbourne's CBD - in January last year when her world was tipped upside down.
Abdullah, 29, had knocked off from a part-time job working security along Lygon Street in Brunswick when he decided to go cruising up and down the popular restaurant strip looking for prey.
His young girl had been on the phone to her boyfriend waiting for her real Uber ride when Abdullah pulled up, rolled down his window and said: 'Uber'.
Distracted, she climbed into the front passenger seat as Abdullah had cunningly locked the back doors.
The Melbourne Magistrates' Court heard on Thursday the teen knew immediately she was in big trouble.
Abdullah had no idea where she lived and
