In less than a week, two stories of brazen sexual assaults on the Tube have hit the headlines. The first involved an arrest for alleged “sexual touching” of fellow passengers when the lights went out on a stranded Elizabeth Line train last Thursday. Now, a man has been jailed for raping a sleeping woman on the Piccadilly Line.
Both should make us as Londoners sick to our stomachs. But what is most horrifying is that both incidents happened in busy carriages — with bystanders who could’ve intervened but didn’t.
