A PRIVATE hire driver who locked female passengers in his car and made sexual remarks to them during late-night cab rides has been jailed.

Michael Boyd was also placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for his antics, which included telling one terrified woman she had “nice boobs” and saying he wanted to have sex with her after locking her in the back of his private hire vehicle.

The former Hampden Cabs driver made the comments to the woman while driving down a back road after pretending they were old friends.

The 34-year-old, who also worked for Compass Cars in Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, was responsible for a series of creepy cab rides last summer, during which he locked several women in his vehicle and asked them why he didn’t have a girlfriend.

He also ogled female passengers and sat outside their homes for as long as half an hour after dropping them off.

Boyd admitted placing four women in a state of fear and alarm and lying to council bosses to get a taxi license when he appeared in court earlier this year.

And, when he returned to the dock at Paisley Sheriff Court yesterday, Sheriff David Pender jailed him for six months and placed him on the Sex Offenders’ Register for seven years.

In March last year he locked another victim in the back of his cab after picking her up in Glasgow city centre, ranting at her and quizzing her on why he was still single.

Boyd had been working as a taxi driver in his home town of Kilmarnock in 2013 but several women made complaints about his behaviour.

He surrendered his license then applied to East Renfrewshire council for a license to drive taxis in and around the Glasgow area.