Hi El Gordo,
The taxi angle being raised again is a good idea, like looking again with "fresh eyes" as a new investigative team does, goes back over everything, from the beginning, and based on what we know are the FACTS. Even though my father drove a taxi for 15 years I only know what happened when he finished was he sold his "plates" to someone else, but what happens to old taxis I don't know. I'm intrigued and am doing research on it now, but I think Bunnie would be your expert perhaps on this disposal and the possibility of getting a taxi light (easy for an electrician to hook one up as a dummy light I would expect), from a wrecker's yard? I found this article about the often unreported rapes being carried out by taxi drivers, very frightening, and a perfect disguise for a rapist? This is article is from 2013 and I'm sure the taxi industry has been "cleaned up" a lots since then, but this is terrifying reading. Just another idea perhaps he was borrowing a taxi from a mate (and paying him a "percentage") and saying he needed to earn a few extra bucks doing the dreaded night shifts for him? This way the CSK wouldn't get picked up in the DNA testing as he wasn't a licensed driver or visible unlicensed driver as I doubt the "lender" would fess up to lending his cab out illegally, and perhaps the real taxi driver was afraid of the CSK, or, couldn't believe it would be HIM???
https://www.theage.com.au/national/...he-reality-of-cab-attacks-20130920-2u56s.html
QUOTE:
"One young woman wrote: "I got into the front of a cab drunk after having a fight with a boy I was with.
''It was 2am and raining, the cab driver approached me and asked me if I needed a lift.
"I told him I only had enough money to get me so far and then he could drop me. He agreed. In hindsight it was stupid but I was 19, drunk and alone.
"He proceeded to tell me I wouldn't have to pay, slowing the car and attempting to grab me.
"He didn't lock the door and I escaped after he attempted to force himself on me.
"Almost three years later and last week I had a cab driver try to kiss me when he dropped me off. I'm at a loss at the moment as to what mode of safe transport is available to me as a single female."