Thursday 16 June 2022 02:22 PM 'Creepy' taxi driver tracks down customer and invites her for drink trends now

A taxi passenger was horrified when a 'creepy' driver tracked her down on social media and asked her out for a drink- saying he had not stopped thinking about her for three months.

Miniver Larman, 25, from Oxford, said she booked a taxi with Go Green Taxis from the train station to her house on the evening of 5th March and had a pleasant journey, chatting with the driver about her day and his holiday.

She said she thought nothing of it until June 12 when she claimed she received a Facebook message from him which read: 'Hey! So since we had a lovely little chat in my taxi following your London Theatre trip your name has pretty much stuck in my head.

'Hope you don't mind me messaging, I'm wondering if you might like to go for a beverage some time.'

He suggested meeting with her last weekend at a festival in Southampton, with the exchange leaving her feeling 'unsafe' because the driver knows her address and had tracked her down on social media. 

The 25-year-old made a complaint to the taxi company and asked them to block the driver from picking up her fares in the future, receiving a brief apology message which read:  'I'm sorry to hear you had this bad experience with us.

'I will pass this onto my manager to be picked up in the morning and dealt with in the correct manner.'

However Miniver is calling on them to discipline the driver for his messages to her to 'prevent another woman going through the same', and says she has not heard anything else from the firm since.

Miniver said: 'This taxi journey was in March which is why it was kind of confusing for me to see him in my message requests because it was quite a while after.

'He messaged me on Facebook so he must have saved my full name and searched and found me.

'It's an app so that's how he saw my full name on the booking. I do have quite a unique name so that doesn't help me.'