Phoebe and Morgane did not know each other when they started driving lessons with the same instructor in Gloucestershire.

“Upon meeting him at first, he seemed polite,” said Phoebe, who was 18 at the time. “He seemed like a normal guy in his 60s.

“And then very quickly he started touching me. He touched me on the leg.

“He assaulted me multiple times during that first lesson.

“He told me inappropriate stories about sleeping with underage girls. And then he began touching me.”

Morgane was 17 years old when she had similar experiences with the instructor.

She said: “It was questions about my body, what underwear I was wearing, did I have any piercings in my private areas.

“He touched my breast, he touched my inner thigh tightly. I just completely froze. I didn’t know what to do.”

Phoebe and Morgane reported their abuser to the police more than five years later and both gave evidence against him in court.

He was given a suspended prison sentence and banned from the profession for 10 years.