A train passenger who grabbed a young woman's hair and said "can I kiss you" has been convicted in the first sex-based harassment charge brought by the British Transport Police (BTP) since the law was changed.
David Stroud, of Dartford, made sexually motivated comments to the woman on a train to London on April 3, two days after a new law came into force banning harassment motivated by a person's sex.
The 44-year-old pleaded guilty to harassing the woman because of her sex at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Thursday (May 7).
Prosecutor Paul Okebu told the court Stroud sat next to the woman, who was on the phone to her boyfriend at the time, on a train which left Hastings at about 8.50pm.
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