A bogus taxi driver is facing sentence after he molested a woman in his car while driving her home in the early hours.

Obaydor Rahman constantly touched the victim's leg as he took her from Maidstone to Gravesend.

She left a nightclub after going out with friends in the town. She phoned a local taxi firm to take her home.

When a BMW car pulled up outside Argos in the High Street she gave her name and asked the driver, Obaydor Rahman, if it was a cab for her.

He replied: "Yes, where are you going?" She told him, adding she only had £5 but would pay the rest when they arrived.

Prosecutor Andrew Forsyth said the driver agreed. She got in and sat behind him. He drove towards the A229 but stopped in a layby next the town's library.

"He had been addressing her as 'babe' repeatedly," Mr Forsyth told Maidstone Crown Court. "He turned around and using his left hand grabbed the inside of her right leg behind her knee.

"He rubbed her knee and swept his hand underneath her skirt. She pushed his hand away and told him to get off. He said: 'Don't be like that babe.'

"She told him to get her home. He put his hand on her leg and tried to move it up her skirt. Again, she pushed his hand away.

"The journey continued. He constantly reached back, touching her leg trying to get his hand up her skirt throughout the journey."

The woman directed him to her home address and told him to wait while she went to get the money. She awoke her parents and told them what had happened.

Her father went outside and saw the car parked across the drive. As he approached it drove off. He noted the make and model and took a partial registration number.

It enabled police to trace Rahman, 27, and he was arrested.

Rahman, of Hazlitt Drive, Maidstone, denied impersonating a taxi driver and sexual assault, but was convicted today.

Sentence was adjourned until after April 18. Unconditional bail was continued.