I think a large part of the issue is that he commited the rape whilst acting as a taxi driver. I don't know if you're a woman, but if you are, consider whether you'd be comfortable getting in to a taxi, alone, with this individual, knowing he's previously raped a young woman in it. If you're not, consider if you'd be comfortable with a woman you care about doing the same? I know I wouldn't be. Then consider that he wouldn't exacty be advertising the fact he was a convicted rapist, and now all taxi drivers get tarred with that same suspision.

So yes, I'd say he does need to lose his licence, and that fact should be public to reduce the harm to others. He'll also be barred from any other sensitive occupations where he might be alone with vulnerable people. That's what happens when you commit a crime like this. Having said that, I would hope that, while he is incarcerated, he receives adaquate training, both to fix whatever made him think raping a vulnerable 18 year old then dumping her on the roadside was acceptable, but also to have a trade he can turn to when he gets out, for exactly the reasons you talk about.

Anything that doesn't put him in a position of power, alone, with potentially vulnerable people.

It's specifically a licensed job for those reasons.

Awa' and beil yer heid with this fucking boak American style rapist apologising reasoning. We don't have a prison industrial complex here.

Plenty of bar work, delivery drivers, or lorry drivers needed in Scotland. Inverness is bustling

So you think he should get less than 7 years in the clink but the women he raped get lifelong mental problems. Sounds super fair imo /s

They should just chemically castrate anyone who can’t control their sexual urges.

The job of INMATE!