Salman Yousaf, aged 46, has been sentenced to more than four years in prison after sexually assaulting women on London’s Night Tube services. The British Transport Police (BTP) handed down the sentence at Inner London Crown Court on 20 May following a joint investigation with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).
The investigation connected Yousaf to nine offences committed between 2017 and 2021. At the time of his arrest for these Tube offences, Yousaf was already serving a seven-year sentence at HMP Pentonville.
Yousaf targeted vulnerable women who were travelling alone after he fell asleep on Central and Jubilee Line Night Tube services. His attacks included eight counts of sexual assault and one charge of outraging public decency. The earliest recorded incident took place at 5am on 11 March 2017 near Stratford, where he masturbated in front of a woman.
Police investigations revealed that information from the MPS about Yousaf’s previous offending matched details from unsolved Night Tube cases. The combined efforts of the two police forces established Yousaf’s involvement in a series of covert assaults over a four-year period that had remained unresolved.
At court, Yousaf pleaded guilty to all charges. He was sentenced to four-and-a-half years imprisonment, with an additional four years on licence following his release. Furthermore, he has been placed on the sex offenders register for life and issued with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) to restrict his future behaviour.
Detectives arrested Yousaf in prison on 16 April 2024, where he declined to comment. The Crown Prosecution Service authorised all nine charges after the investigation, ensuring that Yousaf is held accountable for his calculated attacks on vulnerable women across the London Underground network.
Originally published by UKNIP.
