September 2014 Jailed: school taxi driver who raped girl sentenced to 13 years behind bars A TAXI driver trusted by the county council to take children to school has been jailed for a string of historic sex offences against a young girl. Adrian Mills, who ran a taxi company in Corfe Castle, was sentenced to serve 13 years behind bars after a jury unanimously found him to be guilty of three counts of rape against a female under the age of 16, and two of indecent assault against the same victim. The attacks took place between 1989 and 1992. Mills, of Halves Cottages, made his victim relive her ordeal during the four-day trial after denying all the charges against him. But jurors took just hours to convict him on all charges. The 59-year-old headed up family-owned business Valley Taxis, responsible for taking scores of local children to their schools. Following the case, the firm said that Mills had not been associated with the firm since October 2013. Drivers must be CRB checked before beginning to work for the firm. On the website, Mills had posted testimonials from customers – including a child who thanks him for the “chats and debates” they have shared. A spokesperson for Dorset County Council said: “The safety of children is paramount to us. “All of our taxi providers must go through rigorous disclosure and barring service (DBS) checks and quality assessments before they are allowed to drive children to and from schools. “As soon as we were notified in September 2013 by the Police and Safeguarding Children’s Board of the allegations made against Adrian Mills, we withdrew authorisation for him to drive on any county council contracts and he has not worked for us since.” A former acquaintance of Mills, who doesn’t want to be named, said he fears that there may be other victims still to come forward. “Because of the nature of his job, it’s so worrying to think there could be other youngsters out there who might have been hurt,” he said. “He committed these offences so long ago that you wonder what else he could have done to other children in that time.”