A taxi driver who told a female passenger he hated women has been jailed for 15 months for his towards lone females.
Michael Boyd locked one woman in his car, pestered her to go out with him and said he would keep her in his taxi until she gave him her phone number.
Within a matter of hours he left another female passenger petrified as he took her back to her home from a friend's house.
He picked up the 47-year-old, told his firm he hadn't collected her and then repeatedly told her he hated women during the journey.
Boyd, 34, was locked up yesterday (MON) at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court for his conduct towards the two passengers, and stalking his neighbour and his ex girlfriend.
He was also banned from approaching or contacting his ex and neighbour for four years.
Alan Parfery, prosecuting, told the court that Boyd had been working as a taxi driver with firm Thistle Cabs in early 2014 when he picked Elizabeth McCluskey and two friends up after a night out.
He locked the doors and drove to the woman's house, parked up and started making advances towards her. She eventually escaped.
Later he picked up another woman and called Kilmarnock women sluts, the court heard.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article