AT 2.30am on Sunday, March 22, my daughter was leaving the cruise ship Oceana and went to get a taxi from the rank outside Leisure World.

The taxi driver asked for money up front. She told him she only had £10 on her so he took that.

The taxi got to Kennedy Road in Maybush and the fare had reached £10. We live in Wittering Road in Lordshill which is around five minutes drive from there in a car, but he refused to continue the journey and told her to get out even though she would have paid him once she got home.

So he basically left my 20-year-old daughter stranded in the street in the early hours.

How is this acceptable?

Anything could have happened. We were told the same thing happened to a boy in Lordswood recently and he ended up getting beaten up.

To me it seems taxi drivers no longer care what happens to young people.

L BOWLES, Southampton.