County Court judge Wendy Wilmoth said Nitin Rana, who was found guilty by a jury of three counts of rape, had preyed on the 17-year-old girl when she was in such an intoxicated state that she could not sit up straight in the taxi or even fasten her seatbelt.

Rana was jailed for six years with a non-parole period of four years and the Judge ordered him to be placed on the sex offenders register for 15 years, according to a media report.