Brave woman faces fake Uber driver after molestation

A fake Uber driver who pleaded guilty to molesting two women looking for a safe way home has faced the music in court for the first time.

Kais Dahdal saved lives as a doctor before he came to Australia, but that didn't stop him from traumatising one of his victims, Ashy.

"I feel disgusting and I feel weak. I have anxiety that my doctor has tried to medicate me for since the incident," Ashy told A Current Affair.

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"I have such a long way to go for recovery from this and I just hope that my boys never have to see their mummy so broken - never again."

Dahdal tried to take advantage of Ashy and another woman in October last year, when he drove his wife's car without a licence and faked being an Uber driver on the streets of Wollongong, south of Sydney.

Before coming across Ashy, Dahdal approached his first victim and told her he was an Uber driver.

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She got in the car and when it was time to drop her off he instead told her: "We are just going for a drive."

He then squeezed her thigh, kissed her on the lips and said: "Want to have some fun?"

Dahdal asked the woman to have sex with him. She declined, paid him cash and hurried out of the car.

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That night Ashy had been out drinking with friends and Dahdal pretended to be her Uber.

She paid him in cash but he touched her on the thigh and said: "You can pay me in sex".

Ashy fled.

Dahdal attempted to cover his face as he fronted court to learn his fate today.

Ashy bravely faced him to read a victim impact statement to the court ahead of his sentencing.

"The night I met this man, was the night that everything changed for me personally … as a woman, a mum and my work life," she said.

"I thought I was tough. I'm a single mum. We can get through anything because we're strong for our children's sake. But that night showed me that I am most definitely not.

"I've developed this awful fear of men."

Ashy told A Current Affair she "couldn't breathe" when she saw him in court. It was the first time since the incident.

"Being in the same room as him just the whole time I was absolutely shaking," Ashy said.

Dahdal's lawyer Greg Stanton described him as a broken pariah.

The court heard he came to Australia as a fully qualified surgeon from Syria, but now his life as a doctor is over.

"He has woken every day since the commission of this offence knowing that he has ... destroyed his life," Stanton said.

But Magistrate Claire Girotto said: "(That) doesn't help her (Ashy) though, it doesn't change the fact that she's a broken woman. This is a person who did the wrong thing."

Ashy said: "I understand if you know something happened to him in his life, but don't take that out on someone else …. you've ruined me now, you've ruined another person."

Outside court A Current Affair reporter Hannah Sinclair asked Dahdal whether he would like to apologise to his victims, but he did not respond.

"He's apologised within the material, well and truly he's apologised to all relevant parties and that's been expressed," his lawyer said.

Dahdal has pleaded guilty and will learn his punishment next week.

"At the end of the day it doesn't change anything, you know, he doesn't deserve to live a happy free man," Ashy said.

"No matter his sentencing, I'm still damaged."