A TAXI driver sexually assaulted a drunk woman passenger as he pulled up outside her house, Oxford Crown Court was told.

Choudry Saleem rubbed her thigh after telling her “young girls shouldn’t go out getting drunk, they never know what could happen to them”, a jury heard yesterday.

Forty-year-old Saleem, of Benson-based Say Cars, denies sexually assaulting the woman in Wallingford on December 5.

The alleged victim, who cannot be named, told jurors she had been drinking in The Green Tree pub before getting the taxi in the Market Square at about midnight.

Describing the end of the journey, she said: “He was like ‘you’re quite drunk aren’t you?’ and I said ‘yes, I’m steaming’.

“He said ‘young girls shouldn’t go out getting drunk, they never know what could happen to them’. I just thought ‘yeah, true, but I’m on my way home so nothing is happening’. I thought it was a bit strange.

The woman added: “He reached over and put his hand on my leg. I panicked and got out the taxi.

The court heard the woman picked Saleem, of Bowerdean Road, High Wycombe, out of an identity parade in March.

The trial continues.