A Supreme Court judge found Manase Fuavao not guilty of sexually assaulting a 27-year-old woman on 19 October 2017 at Tokomololo.
Kaniva News reports the court heard the woman had rung Hufanga Taxi after her night shift at her workplace in Nuku’alofa and asked to be taken to her home at Houma.
But prosecutors claimed the driver had first taken her to a bush allotment in Tokomololo instead.
While they were driving, the court heard Fuavao told the woman “he felt sexy and wanted to have sex with her.”
The woman claimed she rejected his requests.
