Anna ordered an Uber when she got into the wrong car. What happened next will make your skin crawl 

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A Mongolian who was in Australia on a tourist visa has lost his attempt to overturn a conviction for raping a woman who got into his car thinking it was her Uber.

Anna* thought she had overdosed after drinking a bottle of wine and taking some tablets while depressed and called an Uber to take her to hospital. 

But in her state of anxiety, the 23-year-old mistakenly sent the ride-share car to the wrong address, not to her apartment in the inner Sydney suburb of Waterloo.

Instead she got into a car on the street she thought was her Uber and the driver, Zorigoo Zurshig, put the passenger seat back and raped Anna twice. 

After around 50 minutes she finally managed to get out of the car and back to her unit, feeling 'scared and not in control', the Sydney Morning Herald reported. 

Anna got into a car she thought was her Uber and the driver, Zorigoo Zurshig (pictured), put the passenger seat back and raped Anna twice

Zurshig was caught and found guilty in the NSW District Court of two counts of rape and sentenced to four years and three months in prison with a two-year non-parole period.

At first he denied having had sexual contact with Anna, but a DNA sample taken from him matched Anna's swab from a sexual assault clinic.

He then took his case to the NSW Criminal Court of Appeal, but failed to have the conviction overturned. 

The attack on Anna is one of several such cases in recent years where men have pretended to be providing a ride-share service and used it to sexually assault or harass women.

In August 2023, court documents revealed that an 18-year-old woman who was sexually touched after mistakingly getting into the wrong car while waiting for an Uber managed to record the horror ordeal on her phone.

The driver, 42-year-old Mohamed Maan Hammoud, pleaded guilty at the Sydney Downing Centre Local Court to sexually touching the teenager without consent. 

In October 2022, the young woman and a friend were drinking at the Village Inn Pub on Glenmore Road in Paddington.

She used the Uber app to book a trip home, about five kilometres away, but had three trips cancelled before she was assigned a white Toyota Corolla.

According to the prosecution's statement of facts, the teenager waited a short while before she mistakenly got into the front passenger side of a black Toyota Corolla hatchback which was driven by the offender, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

But in her state of anxiety, the 23-year-old mistakenly sent the ride-share car to the wrong address, not to her apartment in the inner Sydney suburb of Waterloo

Hammoud asked the teenager while driving her home, 'do you get horny?', which made her feel uncomfortable.

This prompted her to open the voice memos application on her phone and start recording the exchange between her and the offender during the car ride.

Hammoud questioned her about the night and asked if she had ever used drugs, he then 'placed his hand on (her) right thigh and stroked in an up and down motion up to where her skirt ended,' the facts stated.

She was repeatedly asked, 'do you like that?' and was told by Hammoud to 'spread them' and 'spread your legs'.

Hammoud stroked her thigh again before asking her again, 'do you like that?' to which she replied, 'no'.

The prosecution's statement of facts said Hammoud then attempted to place his hand under the teenager's skirt.

'The victim said 'mm, no', The offender said 'later?' (and) the victim did not reply to this,' the facts state.

The attack on Anna is one of several such cases in recent years where men have pretended to be providing a ride-share service and used it to sexually assault or harass women. Stock image

Hammoud also asked the victim whether she was masturbating because he believed she was 'making sex noises', to which she said 'no'.

He then rubbed her right thigh a third time.

The teenager then pretended she was asleep to avoid the offender for the rest of the trip home, which was approximately 10 minutes.

The offender, who believed the victim was asleep, told the teen to wake up as they had arrived at her home.

The young woman alerted her friend and her parents and immediately reported the incident to police.

Police arrested Hammoud at his home in Greenacre, in Sydney's south-west, in November 2021. 

*Name changed