Former Halifax taxi driver gets 2-year sentence for sexual assault Haley Ryan © Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press Bassam Al-Rawi, convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in December 2012 after he picked her up in his cab, walks outside the courtroom during a break at Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax on Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. A former Halifax taxi driver has been handed a sentence of two years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman eight years ago. Bassam Al-Rawi was found guilty in August of sexually assaulting the woman in his Bedford, N.S., apartment in the early...