London restaurant worker jailed for sexually assaulting teenage girl

Assault: the incident happened at Chippenham station
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Hannah Al-Othman17 January 2016
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A London restaurant worker who repaid the kindness of a teenage girl by sexually assaulting her has been jailed.

Mohammed Thoskir Ali approached the 16-year-old at Chippenham railway station on June 1 last year and asked her if she would help him buy a train ticket to London because his English was not very good.

As they left the ticket counter, the 63-year-old asked her if she wanted to go for a drink.

The teen avoided Ali’s question and pointed out which platform he needed to go to.

However, as the girl went to leave, Ali gestured that he wanted to hug her.

She responded by trying to shake his hand at which point, Ali pulled her towards him and began to kiss her, before touching her inappropriately.

The teen immediately reported what had happened to the staff in the ticket office, who called British Transport Police.

Officers boarded Ali’s train at Didcot Parkway and, after a search of the carriages, he was found and arrested on suspicion of sexual assault by touching.

Ali was later charged with the offence but denied carrying out the assault, claiming the victim had hugged him.

However, a district judge sitting at Chippenham Magistrates’ Court saw through his story and Ali, of Hanbury Street, in Tower Hamlets, was found guilty.

He was sentenced to 16 weeks in prison, given a restraining order until January 2018 and was placed on the Sex Offender Register for seven years.

Detective Constable Richard Day from BTP in Bristol said: “I would like to commend the victim’s bravery in coming forward and for reporting this to us straightaway, which allowed us to swiftly arrest Ali before his train got to London.

“We take all reports of sexual offences on the rail network extremely seriously and nobody should be subjected to such behaviour – especially not a child who was simply trying to help someone.

“I hope this case will give other victims the confidence to come forward, knowing they will be taken seriously and we will take action, doing everything we can to bring offenders to justice.”

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