Rohan Uddin targeted his victim on a relatively empty carriage
A ‘vulgar and sickening individual’ who sexually assaulted a woman on a London Underground train has been jailed. Rohan Uddin, 22, sat next to the victim, in her 20s, and began to masturbate as he sexually assaulted her.
She was travelling on her own in a relatively empty Central line carriage just after 9pm on April 29 of this year. The woman, scared for her own safety, moved away from Uddin as the service passed Marble Arch, but was able to snap a photo of him.
This allowed the British Transport Police to identify Uddin and place a wanted marker on his name, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard. Officers from the Metropolitan Police stopped him for unrelated reasons in June and arrested him upon discovering he was wanted.
Uddin, of Bedford Road, South Tottenham, then assaulted two police constables. He later pled guilty to outraging public decency, sexual assault and two counts of assaulting an emergency worker.
He was sentenced to a total of 16 months behind bars and ordered to pay an £187 surcharge. The judge also slapped him with a 10-year sexual harm prevention order which prohibits him from talking to or engaging with any women or girls not known to him when travelling on public transport, entering a station or travelling on transport while under the influence of any intoxicating liquor or substance, placing his hands inside clothing in order to touch his genitals while on board or at stations and from travelling without a valid ticket or payment for travelling.
Detective Constable Elaine Sexton-Thomas, of the British Transport Police, said: “It is thanks to the brave woman reporting this horrific incident to staff and to officers that we have been able to get this vulgar and sickening individual off of the railway network.
“The sentence handed down and the long-lasting Sexual Harm Prevention Order should act as a warning to others that we take all reports of sexual offences and unwanted sexual behaviour seriously and we will always support and believe victims throughout the investigation.”
Anyone who experiences or witnesses a sexual offence on the railway or at a station can contact BTP by texting 61016 or calling 0800 40 50 40.
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