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Man who asked woman for kiss sentenced in legal first
Key takeaways
- David Stroud grabbed a woman's hair and asked if he could kiss her on a train to London from Hastings, East Sussex.
- He was arrested shortly after a new law banning harassment motivated by a person's sex came into force.
- The 44-year-old, from Dartford in Kent, had pleaded guilty at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court in May.
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Joshua Askew South East PA Media David Stroud made sexually motivated comments to a woman on a train. A man has been given a 12-month community order after being convicted in a first-of-its-kind sex-based harassment prosecution brought by the British Transport Police.
David Stroud grabbed a woman's hair and asked if he could kiss her on a train to London from Hastings, East Sussex.
He was arrested shortly after a new law banning harassment motivated by a person's sex came into force.
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