Face of Tipton rapist who posed as Wolverhampton taxi driver

Boshir Ali's crime was so shocking that his sentence was increased to 10 years.

The prosecution successfully argued that his original jail term of seven years and nine months was too lenient – and three judges agreed at the Court of Appeal in London on Friday.

The 35-year-old struck outside Babylon night club – in North Street, Wolverhampton, and was caught when he inexplicably called the victim the day after the attack from his own phone, giving detectives a vital breakthrough.

He trapped the victim by putting an eight-inch yellow sticker down the passenger door of his car to make it look like a cab.

It was parked outside when the victim, who had been drinking, came out of the club by a workmate who believed that it was a licenced taxi and helped her to get inside not realising he had left her at the mercy of a maniac.

Ali was supposed to drive her home to Wednesbury but took the drunk victim to a secluded car park where she was raped. Then he dumped the young woman near home where she fell out of the vehicle, grazing her knees.

The next morning she was too embarrassed to speak but took her mother's mobile phone and typed into it: 'The taxi man raped me'. Police were called and when officers checked the mobile of the victim they discovered a call made to it on the day after the attack from a number she did not recognise. Inquiries revealed it belonged to Ali from Wellington Road, Tipton, who was arrested soon after. It is not known why he wanted to ring her and unclear how he got the number, although it is possible he made a note of it after picking the phone up while she was in his car.

The defendant denied the offence, claiming that the woman had agreed to sex, but he was convicted of rape by a jury.

The Solicitor General, Oliver Heald QC, who referred the case to the Court of Appeal, said after its ruling: "It has agreed that the original sentence of seven years nine months was unduly lenient and have therefore replaced it with 10 years. I hope that the public will be reassured by this decision."