First sex-based harassment conviction under new law

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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.

https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/dartford-man-who-grabbed-womans-10954916

Zov · Today 17:43

I can't believe the shitty punishment this man got! He said he was sooooo sorry and was drunk when he did it. I have been around drunk men - a lot - in the past, and they have managed to not grab my hair and try to force me to kiss them.

The young woman said it has affected her life and her confidence and she feels afraid to travel alone now. Imagine how embarrassed his wife and children must be? Do these gross, hideous, vile, and entitled gropey men not think at ALL? Are they so fucking obnoxious and thick that they think they deserve a woman's attention? That we are all just on this planet for the entertainment of men? To be groped and grabbed? And to hell with the consequences for the woman he attacks (and his poor wife and children...)

Utter cunt.

Deborah Ross being scathing in the Times

https://www.thetimes.com/article/48dcdaa0-7f67-4d20-92b8-88ae9a55564c?shareToken=57a4190e26cd7323ec2565bb4407b395&ver=article