Man who asked woman for kiss sentenced in legal first

A antheral has been fixed a 12 period assemblage bid aft being convicted successful a first-of-its-kind sex-based harassment complaint brought by the British Transport Police.

David Stroud grabbed a woman's hairsbreadth and asked if helium could buss her connected a bid to London from Hastings, East Sussex.

He was arrested 2 days aft a caller instrumentality banning harassment motivated by a person's enactment came into force.

The 44-year-old, from Dartford successful Kent, had pleaded blameworthy astatine Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court successful May.

In a connection made during the archetypal transgression sentencing of its benignant successful England and Wales connected Tuesday, the pistillate said she felt "trapped, powerless and petrified".

"I ever consciousness the request to person institution erstwhile I permission the location now," she said.

"I tin ne'er genuinely spell anyplace connected my own, simply due to the fact that I'm a woman."