Serial sex offender jailed after targeting women on London’s night Tube

27 May 2026 • 9:49 PM MYT
The Independent
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Serial sex offender jailed after targeting women on London’s night Tube

  • Salman Yousaf, 46, has been jailed for a series of sexual assaults targeting women asleep on London's Night Tube services.
  • He admitted to eight counts of sexual assault and one of outraging public decency, committed between 2017 and 2021 on the Central and Jubilee lines.
  • Yousaf received a custodial sentence, an additional four years on licence, and was placed on the sexual offenders register for life.
  • His identification came after a tip-off from the Metropolitan Police in 2024, leading British Transport Police to link him to previously unsolved cold cases.
  • Yousaf was already serving a prison sentence for a separate sexual assault where he targeted another woman who had fallen asleep on the Tube.

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