Tuesday 25 August 2015

Passage To India: Bus Sex Predator Ordered Back Home

A paedophile, who targeted a 15 year-old schoolgirl on an early-morning bus as she travelled to school, has been locked-up for fifteen months.
Harvinder Singh, 24, of Minterne Avenue, Southall initially groped the girl then forced her to perform sex acts.
He was also placed on the sex offenders register for ten years and was ordered to be deported to his native India upon release.
He pleaded guilty at Isleworth Crown Court to sexual assault and causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent on the route 120 bus on February 11.
As the bus travelled between Hounslow and Southall Singh sat next to the schoolgirl and began to touch her before forcibly making her commit acts of a sexual nature.
The victim managed to press the 'stop' button and got away from Singh.
She left the bus but Singh also got off and followed her as far as her school where she was able to report the incident.
Police attended the victim and secured vital DNA evidence.
Singh was identified through on-bus CCTV and arrested the following day.
Singh gave a no comment interview, but was charged with sexual assault and remanded in custody where he remained until his trial.
Detective Superintendent Adnan Qureshi of the Metropolitan Police's Roads and Transport Policing Command, said: "This was an excellent result, which has seen the perpetrator of an appalling crime receive a lengthy time in jail and deportation on release.
"If you commit an offence on the transport network, we will pursue and arrest you."
Steve Burton, TfL's Director of Enforcement and On-Street Operations, said: "We take crimes of this nature incredibly seriously.
Thanks to the bravery of this victim in reporting this terrible offence the MPS were able to track down and subsequently help convict this predatory criminal.

“We will continue to work closely with our policing partners to rid our transport network of this kind of behaviour.

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