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A “despicable” pervert who terrorised girls on the Tube by flattening his trousers has been jailed for 14 months. Ayman Yanoussi, 21, uncovered himself to girls at a station and on a prepare and tried to talk with a number of different girls “within minutes on the same morning.”

Yanoussi, who arrived within the nation in 2016, had already been banned from approaching girls he didn’t know in public at a listening to earlier in December, however he broke the order simply 12 days later. On December 28 final yr Yanoussi uncovered himself to a lady while she was alone on a platform at Upminster Bridge in East London and masturbated in entrance of her earlier than following her onto a prepare carriage.

He then travelled throughout London on the District and Circle strains, repeatedly attempting to talk to girls after which exposing himself to a different girl between Baker Street and Goldhawk Road.

He was arrested at Hammersmith station after the second girl he uncovered himself to reported him, Inner London Crown Court heard.

Yanoussi pleaded responsible to those prices on February 18.

At the time he was in breach of a suspended sentence which he had acquired simply two weeks earlier than, for secretly recording girls with a digicam hid underneath his garments at Bank Underground station on 4 events in April 2024.

He acquired a nine-month sentence for these offences, suspended for 18 months.

He additionally has a earlier conviction for sexual assault for which he was sentenced in 2023, for slapping a lady’s backside in public.

Bespectacled Yanoussi appeared within the dock carrying a white sweatshirt and spoke to verify his identify and to acknowledge he had breached his suspended sentence.

Prosecutor Richard Witcombe stated: “The offences all took place during the day on the same journey on December 28, with the first offence taking place around 11.20am.”

Describing the primary publicity, Richard Witcombe stated: “The victim encountered Mr Yanoussi at the station in Upminster in the morning. She encountered Mr Yanoussi on a bench. She saw that his bottom was exposed, his trousers by the time she saw him were round his ankles. He was masturbating.

“A short while later she boarded a prepare, Mr Yanoussi boarded too in the identical carriage. What then adopted was a tube journey by Mr Yanoussi… when he made contact with girls who have been strangers to him and who have been passengers.”

Footage from later in the journey was played in court, the first clip showing a mostly empty tube carriage, with Yanoussi walking down and taking a seat opposite a woman.

More clips showed him trying to communicate with two more women, who both appear uninterested.

The judge noted that the third woman “will get up and strikes away as if retching.”

Mr Bowyer stated: “The second and subsequent publicity was an hour and half in a while the opposite facet of London drawing close to to Baker Street. The sufferer boarded a prepare that was comparatively empty close to the again.”

Yanoussi moved to sit down opposite her, pulled down his tracksuit bottoms and began masturbating.

The victim confronted him and he denied he had been doing anything.

Mr Bowyer said: “She reported the publicity; within the minutes that adopted he was detained.”

The prosecution read from the personal victim impact statements, saying the women felt “shocked and disturbed” by what had happened and it had increased their fear for the safety of others, especially younger women travelling alone.

Defence counsel Natalie Turner said: “Mr Yanoussi needs to increase his apologies to the victims of those offences. He’s ashamed of his actions, nothing can excuse what he did therefore his responsible pleas. He was born and raised in Spain and he got here to England in 2016, he has full settlement standing.”

The judge Mr Recorder Jonathan Higgs told the pervert: “You understood when you got that suspended sentence that in the event you breached it you’ll go to jail. You are a menace to girls sexually. These are offences of horrifying girls, of having fun with horrifying girls. This form of behaviour actually troubles girls, it makes them going out and dwelling an odd life tougher, that there are folks such as you going spherical terrifying them.

“You were given a chance on 16 December and you flatly rejected it. You say you were under the influence of drugs, but you weren’t under it accidentally, that was a deliberate conscious choice by you. This was not a one off thing, you were still doing it an hour and a half later, frightening women in that way, intentionally approaching women.”

He sentenced Yanoussi to 14 months in jail and stated if he had been older or if he reoffends he’ll face “much longer” sentences.

Detective Constable Ian Hourihan stated: “Yanoussi’s actions that day were despicable. He sought sexual gratification on the railway at the expense of dozens of women and other commuters. I am extremely pleased to see him put behind bars, and would like to commend the bravery of the women who came forward to report his actions and support our investigation so we could secure justice.

“We consider that different girls could have been focused by Yanoussi that day, and I need to encourage them to come back ahead and report their experiences so we will safe justice for them too. If you have witnessed one thing comparable or see any sexual offending on the railway community, I urge you to report it to us by discreetly texting 61016. We take each report critically, and officers will be dispatched to intercept trains and arrest offenders.”