An Ealing teenager who carried out a series of “sickening and opportunistic” sexual assaults on the Tube has been jailed, the British Transport Police said.
Hadi Al Koumi assaulted four women in three days in August last year, with two of the attacks taking place within two hours of each other.
Isleworth Crown Court heard how the 18-year-old first assaulted a woman in her 30s during rush hour on August 6, 2024.
When she went to get on a train at St John’s Wood underground station at around 5.15pm, Al Koumi crouched down behind her and sexually assaulted her, before running away.
Two days later, Al Koumi walked up behind another woman in her 30s and sexually assaulted her when her train arrived at Green Park underground station at around 2.40pm.
As the victim turned to look at him, he walked away, before looking back and winking at her.
Less than two hours later at 4.20pm on August 8, a woman in her 40s was at East Acton underground station and was distracted by her phone.
Again, Al Koumi approached the victim from behind and sexually assaulted her.
Later that day at around 11.15pm, a fourth victim, a woman in her 30s, was on board a train between Greenford and Perivale station when she was approached by Al Koumi, who attempted to engage her in conversation.
She politely asked him to leave her alone but he persisted.
After telling him again, he sexually assaulted her.
The victim managed to throw a glass at him as the doors opened and she left the train, before calling 999.
Al Koumi was captured on CCTV during all four offences and his images were circulated by police.
He was then spotted by officers from the British Transport Police at Perivale station on August 27 and was arrested.
Al Koumi was sentenced on Friday at Isleworth Crown Court to four years and eight months after he pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual assault and was found guilty of a further sexual assault carried out over a two-day period.
He was also handed a six-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and a life-long signature on the Sex Offenders Register.
Detective Sergeant Matthew Nolan said: “Al Koumi took deliberate advantage of the rail network in order to assault multiple women for his own sexual gratification.
“He's clearly a dangerous predator who has exhibited a disturbing and abhorrent pattern of offending towards women, so I’m grateful to see the sentencing handed down today, and I hope it can bring some sense of closure and comfort to the women he targeted.
"There is zero-tolerance for sexual offences on the rail network, and we have uniformed patrols and specially-trained plain clothes officers on patrol at stations and on trains around the clock to keep the travelling public safe.
“We will continue to do everything in our power to bring offenders like Al Koumi to justice.”
Victims or witnesses of a sexual assault or crime can discreetly report it by texting 61016.
