Jailed: Shrewsbury taxi driver indecently assaulted young girls
A Shrewsbury taxi driver who admitted indecently assaulting two young girls more than 20 years ago has been jailed for five years.
Tommasso Picardo was arrested after one of the girls, now an adult who cannot be named for legal reasons, went to police in February last year.
Shrewsbury Crown Court heard she told police the 56-year-old, of Crewe Street, had sexually assaulted her in the summer of 1995.
Mr Anthony Potter, prosecuting, said Picardo initially told police: "I wholeheartedly deny these allegations."
But in a second interview last month, he told officers he had also assaulted another girl at the same time as the assault on the first victim in 1995.
Picardo had pleaded guilty to two charges of indecent assault at a previous court hearing and appeared at Shrewsbury Crown Court on Tuesday to be sentenced.
Judge Robin Onions told him: "It is impossible to understand why you behaved the way you did. You had not done it before and have not done it since."
