A WOMAN taxi driver was assaulted after she had gone to pick up her boyfriend from the pub.

Hyndburn magistrates heard that Andrew Lamb complained that it shouldn’t have taken her half an hour to get there.

And when she tried to get out of the car Lisa Daffern was grabbed around the neck and dragged back before her mobile phone was ripped from her hand.

Lamb, 37, of Barn Croft, Clitheroe, pleaded guilty at Hyndburn magistrates to assaulting Miss Daffern. He was remanded on bail for the preparation of a pre-sentence report.

Philippa White, prosecuting, was working in the early hours when she received a call on her mobile from Lamb. He had been out for the evening with family and asked her to pick him up.

“She explained she was in the middle of a job and would come when she had finished and his response was that she had better hurry up,” said Mrs White.

Deborah Morgan, defending, said Lamb’s behaviour was totally out of character and he was extremely remorseful.

“He says he has been feeling rather paranoid about her and whether she was having an affair,” said Miss Morgan. “He was at home 24 hours a day and she was working a lot but he had no evidence that anything was going on.”