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Qais Al-Aswad, 26, who is originally from Syria, sexually assaulted three women as he passed them on the same cycle lane in Horley, Surrey in May and June this year. Al-Aswad, who was staying at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel at the time, was seen on CCTV footage reaching out with his hand and sexually assaulting his victims as he cycled past. The assaults all took place while Al-Aswad was travelling to and from the hotel to work at a car wash in London Bridge. He approached the first woman after she had left the pub with her mother, 'slapping her bottom from behind' at around 9pm on May 23. Al-Aswad 'grabbed hold and squeezed' the bottom of a second woman at around 9pm on June 4. Eight days later on June 12, Al-Aswad passed a third woman on his bike and 'grabbed her crotch and vaginal area' at around 10.45am. Following the 26-year-old's conviction in August, around 200 anti-immigration protesters gathered outside the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel in Horley, where he had lived. He was sentenced at Staines Magistrates' Court on Wednesday to six months in custody, suspended for two years. The court heard that after initially denying it was him who had committed the assaults, Al-Aswad told an interview with probation that he was 'unfamiliar with UK laws regarding physical contact'. The judge said Al-Aswad 'attempted to minimise his behaviour' in the interview and also claimed he had only touched the women to move them out of his path to avoid a collision, as the brakes on his bike were faulty. Two of his victims, who sat in the public gallery to watch the sentencing, shook their heads when they heard this claim repeated by the judge. District Judge Cooper added: 'You showed no remorse at the time of these offences, putting your finger up to one woman and blowing a kiss to another.' Reading a victim impact statement to the court, one of his victims, who had been shopping in the town when he grabbed her, said: 'What upsets me the most about this whole incident is how an individual who himself claims to be seeking safety and happiness, feels he has the right to remove those same things from myself and other women.' The court heard that when the victim swore at the defendant after he assaulted her, he blew a kiss at her. At trial Al-Aswad, wearing HMP Wandsworth-issued grey sweat pants and grey T-shirt, told the court via an Arabic interpreter: 'I left my country. I left my wife and kids in the camp and seek safety. 'I want to know what you are going to do with me today. I want to know that if I am found guilty, how am I going to see my wife?' The court heard Al-Aswad, who was flanked by a security guard in the dock, fled Syria in 2018 after his home had been bombed. He arrived in the UK from Turkey in 2024. As well as the suspended prison sentence, Al-Aswad must complete 40 days of rehabilitation activity and 200 hours of unpaid work, and was made subject to a sexual harm prevention order whereby he has to wear a monitoring tag at all times. He has been banned from using any bicycle or scooter in a public place, including parks, unless it has the ability to GPS track his location and route at all times. Related: Surrey: 2025-05-04 World's oldest person, 115, reveals trick to long life Surrey: 2025-01-22 ‘Lab-Grown' Meat Increases Blood Pressure, Inflammation, Depression: Study Surrey: 2024-12-03 Khalistani Separatist Pannun Issues Threats Ahead Of Bhubaneswar DGP/IGP Meet, PM Modi’s Visit Related: Eve teasing 10/06/2024 A female TikToker was molested, groped, sexually assaulted, and stripped naked by hundreds of Pakistani MusIim men during a Pakistan Independence Day event in Lahore Eve teasing 10/11/2022 Herat women complain of street harassment Eve teasing 01/12/2022 Italian police identify young men in NYE assault on women | |
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