A taxi driver yesterday spoke of his “living nightmare” as he denied sexually assaulting two women passengers in his cab.

Former BMW worker and father-of-three Baber Khan, a minicab driver with Royal Cars, told Oxford Crown Court he had never attacked the women.

The 30-year-old, whose wife was pregnant at the time of the alleged assaults, said he had been married for six years.

Referring to the charges, he said: “It has been like living a nightmare. It was a shock.”

Khan, of Dashwood Road, Rose Hill, Oxford, said the first woman had kissed him after he picked her up in his Toyota Avensis in Gloucester Green, Oxford, in September 2007, before he pushed her off.

He said the second woman had made sexual comments to him before they kissed each other on the cheek at the end of the journey in January 2008.

He said: “I am not an attacker and I did not assault them.

“ I 100 per cent know that. I do not know why they have come up here to say that.

“Why would I go out attacking?

“I have got a wife and three kids.”

He denied claims by Kevin Barry, prosecuting, that he saw the two women as “soft targets” because they had been drinking.

The case continues.