Twisted taxi driver Michael Boyd — who also told the woman she had “nice boobs” — made the sleazy comments after picking her up from a party in Neilston.

He pretended to be an old friend of hers and then drove down a quiet back road where he propositioned her.

Boyd picked the woman up from the village’s Robertson Crescent at about 2.30am on June 28 last year.

She thought he was someone she knew and began speaking to him.

He didn’t correct her and pretended to be the pal she thought he was.

Pamela Flynn, prosecuting, told Paisley Sheriff Court: “The accused carried on into comments about her being out of his league but he just wanted to have sex with her.

“He repeated himself, asking why he couldn’t get a girlfriend.

“She noted the doors were locked and that he was driving on a back road and was not amongst a built-up area.” She was so scared for her safety she contacted her brother and got Boyd to go and pick up her boyfriend.

After collecting her partner Boyd raced back to her home so fast that her boyfriend had to ask Boyd to slow down.

When she arrived at her home, in Barrhead’s Braeside Crescent, she was “shaken up and distressed.” Seven days before he targeted the woman, who can’t be named for legal reasons, he leered over another passenger as he took her back to her Barrhead home.

He got the call to take her to the town’s Graham Street after picking her up in Paisley’s New Street.

Flynn said: “She was aware he was continually looking at her in his mirror, which caused her some concern.

“When he dropped her off he asked her if she would go out with him.

“She refused, saying she had a boyfriend.

“The witness noted he drove to the end of the street, turned his vehicle around and sat outside her home for a further 30 minutes, which added to her concerns about the accused’s behaviour.” He was due to be sentenced over the creepy cab rides - which left some passengers believing he had been performing a sex act on himself shortly before they got into his vehicle - and lying to get his East Renfrewshire taxi drivers’ license.

In 2013 he surrendered his East Ayrshire license after several women complained about his behaviour while he was working as a drive in his home town of Kilmarnock.

He applied to East Renfrewshire Council for a license to drive taxis in and around the Barrhead area and lied to get the new license, saying he had never held a taxi drivers’ license before on his application form.

He pleaded guilty to four charges of placing passengers in a state of fear or alarm, and one of lying on his taxi license application, when he appeared in the dock last month and sentence was deferred until today.

But the case against the 33-year-old — who also targeted women in Glasgow — was adjourned until next month on the advice of social workers who interviewed him between his court appearances.

They were unable to decide what punishment best suits Boyd without having him assessed by a psychiatrist.

Sheriff David Pender called for a forensic psychiatric assessment and deferred sentence further.