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.
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