2024 – Unknown
A 10-year-old boy was sexually assaulted at Leicester Square Tube station, police have said. The boy was walking with his mother at around 4.30pm on February 16 when a man sexually assaulted him as he walked up the stairs. The boy’s mother chased after the man as he fled from the scene but could not catch him. The British Transport Police has now released a CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to.
2024 – Merwais Nasiri
Merwais Nasiri sentenced to five years in prison after carrying semi-conscious woman into alleyway.
A depraved sex predator has been jailed for kidnapping a drunken student after she left an Exeter nightclub and taking her into an alleyway. Merwais Nasiri, 25, pretended he was helping the woman but his real motive was to commit a sexual offence, a court heard.
She was barely conscious when he lifted her into a rubbish-strewn alleyway just metres away from clubbers leaving Fever nightclub in Mary Arches Street. He then rolled bins across the entrance so nobody could see what he was about to do.
But a takeaway worker raised the alarm and doorstaff from the club moved the bins to find him kneeling over the woman. No sexual offence was committed but a judge at Exeter Crown Court said Nasiri’s intentions were clear.
“The one thing dominating your mind was sexual activity,” said the judge. Nasiri was jailed for five and a half years. He was found to be a dangerous offender and given an extra four years supervision to be served once he is released.
2023- Naveed Hussain
A man who told a woman he had a room she could rent before raping her, has been jailed.
Naveed Hussain lured his victim to the property in Birmingham before he locked her in a room, threatened her with a machete, and attacked her.
The 33-year-old, who had pleaded not guilty, was jailed for 18 years after a trial at Birmingham Crown Court.
Hussain was arrested shortly after the woman fled the house in Handsworth, and was helped by passers-by who found her.
West Midlands Police said the woman was able to “bravely recall what happened and gave a strong description which led us to arrest Hussain in Handsworth shortly afterwards”.
The defendant, of Sandwell Road, was discovered with a knife in his trousers, before police then found the machete at his house.
On 9 October, a jury found Hussain guilty of two counts of rape, one count of possession of a bladed article and one count of assault.
He will be on the sex offenders register for life.
2023 – Adbulrizak Ali Hersi
Abdulrizak Ali Hersi, 32, of Invicita Close, Limehouse, was found guilty of sexual assault at Inner London Crown Court on May 5. He was given 18 months in prison and a ten-year sexual harm prevention order, meaning that he cannot intentionally stand behind or next to a woman or girl that he doesn’t know in a public place. The incident took place on the Piccadilly Line of the Tube on October 11 last year (as of the date of this article).
Hersi got on the train just before 5pm at Green Park in central London and stood near the doors. Plain clothes officers were also onboard.
A 13-year-old girl got on the train with her family at the next stop, Piccadilly Circus. Hersi sexually assaulted her moments later.
Officers saw the sick attack, stepped in and arrested Hersi after taking him off the train at Leicester Square.
Inspector Sharon Turner said: “Our plain clothes teams are specially trained in identifying dangerous sexual offenders like Hersi, who will do their level best to commit such crimes without notice.
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