Video footage has captured the moment a predator who terrorised women on a London train tells police “I’m regretting my actions”, as he is arrested.
Ayman Yanoussi, 21, of Newham, exposed himself to several women on a station platform and on a District line train on the morning of December 28 last year.
He was jailed at Inner London Crown Court on Thursday, April 16, for 14 months after previously pleading guilty to two counts of exposure, breaching a SHPO, and possessing cannabis.
Footage published by British Transport Police of his arrest shows Yanoussi crying in the back of a police van, with his hands cuffed, as he reflects on his actions, telling officers: “I’m just thinking about what I’ve done”.
Two weeks before the incident, Yanoussi was handed a Sexual Harm Prevention order (SHPO) for other sexual offences he had committed.
In the video, Yanoussi can be heard telling police: “I’m regretting it”.
A court previously heard how Yanoussi was spotted by a woman at Upminster Underground station, sat on a platform bench with his trousers down, and inappropriately touching himself at around 11.20am on December 28.
She took out her phone to record what he was doing to pass on to police, but he quickly pulled his trousers up and hid behind a pillar.
He then boarded a District Line train heading towards Wimbledon.
Not long after he boarded the train, Yanoussi sat next to another woman and pulled his trousers down. After that woman moved away, Yanoussi sat opposite another woman, again exposing himself to her before she moved away.
Yanoussi repeated this behaviour a third time, sitting next to another woman and exposing himself as the train approached Elm Park at which point several of the women who Yanoussi had targeted left the train.
Yanoussi continued to expose himself on different trains across London while occasionally touching himself inappropriately until 12.51pm when a woman reported his behaviour to a member of staff.
The train Yanoussi was on was held at Hammersmith Underground station, and Yanoussi quickly fled the station.
A British Transport Police officer was dispatched to the station and found Yanoussi waiting at a bus stop where he was arrested for exposure.
