My Uber Driver ‘Stalked’ Me After Walking Home From The Shops When He Said I Was Beautiful

A woman has been left with severe anxiety after Ring doorbell footage captured her Uber driver waiting outside her home and throwing rocks at her windows overnight after he dropped her off.

Ruth Ratcliffe, 26, from Manchester, took an Uber to Aldi on Friday and said she felt “uncomfortable” within two minutes of being in the car after the driver started making inappropriate comments and intrusive questions

Ruth, who is a full-time carer for her autistic daughter, told MailOnline: “He would ask me where I was drinking and call me beautiful and tell me there wasn’t much he wouldn’t do for me. He also asked who lived at home with me and my age.

“At first I thought it was general chat, but clearly it wasn’t. I’d say within two minutes of being in the Uber I felt uncomfortable.”

Ruth also told the driver that she had recently been diagnosed with autism, prompting him to call her “autistic and beautiful.”

Ruth Ratcliffe, 26, from Manchester, said she will never use Uber again after her driver returned to her home the day after dropping her off and threw rocks at her windows.

Doorbell footage captures a woman’s Uber driver waiting outside a home

She said: “When he started asking me where I worked and calling me pretty, I thought, ‘This guy is a weirdo.’

Footage captured on Ruth’s Ring’s doorbell camera shows the Uber driver helping himself to carrying shopping bags to the front door at 1.45pm on October 18 as he dropped her off.

Ruth said he offered to take her bags to her house, but she declined because she didn’t want him in her house and “just wanted to get away from him.” He then started trying to call his dog to the front door.

Ruth was shocked when the Ring doorbell camera captured the Uber driver loitering outside her home and even throwing rocks at her daughter’s bedroom window the next night around 10pm: 50

He stood outside his house for about ten minutes before getting back into his car and driving off.

Ruth posted the clips to her TikTok account and wrote: “Only I would end up getting chased by an Uber driver who took me back from Aldi.”

Ruth is the full-time carer for her autistic daughter who can’t walk and relies on Uber to get them to school.

She has since reported the driver on the Uber app and contacted the police. He said the officers will come to his house this afternoon and he will give them a statement.

She said: “Uber driver account no longer exists after being reported.

“It’s caused me a lot of anxiety. I suffer from anxiety anyway, but it’s made it 100 times worse. I should be able to take an Uber and be safe and not be harassed by a driver.

“I have to keep the back door locked all day because I’m scared, so now my dog ​​can’t even go into the garden when he wants to.”

Ruth had relied on Uber to take her everywhere, including dropping her daughters off at school because one of them can’t walk as she doesn’t have a driver’s license yet, but now she says she won’t be using it again never again

The whole ordeal has left the mother of two worried and scared for herself and her daughters.

Ruth said she also left feedback for the driver and believes he was new as his profile had no ratings from other customers.

An Uber employee called her this morning to say they “take it very seriously” and offered to refund the £5.50 for the ride.

An Uber spokesperson said: “What has been described is completely unacceptable. We are investigating the incident and, if found to be accurate, we would remove drivers’ access to the app. We also stand ready to support to the police with any investigation”.