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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Margaret Davis

‘Vile’ predator jailed for sexually assaulting 13-year-old girl on train

Abdulmanon Aliev, 50, originally from Tajikistan and living in Peckham, has been jailed for 12 years for trying to rape a 13-year-old girl on a train - (PA)

A 50-year-old man from Tajikistan has been jailed for 12 years after he sexually assaulted a vulnerable girl on a train.

Abdulmanon Aliev, who was living in Rye Lane in Peckham, south-east London, tried to use a translator app to speak to the girl after sitting down opposite her on a train from Southend to London on the afternoon of 16 June last year.

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