Man sentenced for Night Tube sexual assaults, term extended

A man who sexually assaulted multiple women on London's Night Tube system has been sentenced to additional prison time after police linked him to a series of unsolved crimes. Salman Yousaf, 46, was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court on May 20, where he admitted eight counts of sexual assault and one count of outraging public decency.

Yousaf was already serving a prison sentence when British Transport Police received information from the Metropolitan Police in 2024 that led to his identification. Investigators subsequently reviewed unsolved cases and determined Yousaf was responsible for a series of assaults between 2017 and 2021.

According to police, Yousaf's first offense occurred around 5 a.m. on March 11, 2017, when he masturbated in front of a woman on a Central Line service near Stratford. He then sexually assaulted eight more women on Central and Jubilee line services, specifically targeting lone women who had fallen asleep on nighttime trains.

Officials stated that Yousaf had previously evaded identification due to a lack of on-train CCTV footage and because he did not swipe a card at ticket barriers for several of the offenses. He was serving a sentence of more than...