Taxi driver cleared of raping drunken passenger

A black cab driver has been cleared by a jury of raping a drunken passenger in her flat after taking her home. David Jacobs, 61, was accused of sexually assaulting the City worker after collecting her from Fleets near St Paul’s Cathedral on 3 February this year. The woman, in her 20s, necked ten glasses of wine and a beer in three hours before she was helped into Jacobs’ taxi by colleagues who feared she was so drunk she might…