An Uber Eats delivery driver who raped a customer just hours after delivering food to her home has been jailed.
Jitendrakumar Prajapati, 30, struck up a conversation with the «vulnerable» woman when he dropped off her food order during the day on 19 January. He returned to her home in Boston hours later and attacked her, Lincolnshire Police said.
He was arrested that same night after the victim notified police.
The driver, who pleaded guilty to rape and sexual assault, was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison at Lincoln Crown Court on Friday.
Prajapati must also sign the sex offenders register for life.
Detectives said during the initial delivery, Prajapati told the victim he did not know anyone as he had recently moved to the area and he needed help getting a visa and a job, before asking for her Instagram account details.
They exchanged phone numbers so he could stay in touch and get help with his visa application, in what officers described as him exploiting the victim’s «good nature».
When he returned to the property at about 17:00 GMT, they chatted but then things took a sinister turn and he raped her, police said.