A BIRMINGHAM taxi driver has been placed on the sexual offenders’ register for five years after he groped a female passenger in Bromsgrove last December.

Waqar Khan, 51, of Springfield Road, Kings Heath was found guilty at an earlier trial of sexually assaulting a woman in her late teens by touching her leg and buttock, after he picked her up in a black cab near the Dog and Partridge pub in Worcester Road in the early hours of December 11, last year.

Recorder, David Mason QC sentenced Khan to a three year community order with a supervision order at Worcester Crown Court on Wednesday, September 28.

He expressed concern over Khan’s state of denial, and what he called “a simmering potential problem”, adding: “There was an element of persistence in his offending, but he happened to pick the wrong victim. What may have happened with another young lady, who knows.”

The court heard how Khan has been suspended from working as a taxi driver and has sold his taxi. As part of his sentence he will have to undertake a community sexual offender programme, but he was not asked to contribute towards the court costs.

Recorder Mason, added: “He’s destroyed his 25 year career as a taxi driver and that’s a very high penalty in itself.”

Khan was arrested in January, after a public appeal by West Mercia Police.