‘I thought I was going to die’: women tell court of sexual assaults by fake Uber driver in Melbourne

Francesco De Luise sexually assaulted three women after lurking outside Melbourne hotspots pretending to be an Uber driver

A young woman has described getting into what she believed was an Uber to go meet friends, and becoming trapped with the man driving the car as he sexually assaulted her.

“Being in that car that night, it felt like it was a weapon,” the woman, who cannot be identified, said in a statement to the county court of Victoria.