"He said to me, 'you must be a faggot otherwise you wouldn't care'. Then he realised we were together, which he hadn't realised because maybe we didn't look the way two women in a relationship are expected to look," Thomas said.

By this time the Uber had pulled up outside Thomas's home. But with the doors locked, Thomas said she felt extremely threatened, so she pulled out her phone to let the driver know she was recording the conversation.

“I can do anything I want if I’m prepared to suffer the consequences," the driver, who Thomas described as a male in his early 60s, can be heard saying.

“What are you going to do, give me a one [star] rating? And when I write my report about two people who don’t like being called faggots, then what are they gonna say?”



The driver then unlocked the doors and told the women to get out. When they asked why, the driver threatened to drag them out.

Thomas claims the driver sat and watched as they entered their apartment before slowly driving away.

The shaken couple made it into their apartment and called Uber, who responded "immediately".