Overview
- Qais Al-Aswad, 26, was sentenced on October 22 at Staines Magistrates’ Court to six months in custody, suspended for two years.
- He must complete 40 days of rehabilitation activity and 200 hours of unpaid work under the court’s order.
- A sexual harm prevention order requires continuous electronic monitoring, and he is barred from using bicycles or scooters in public unless GPS tracking records his routes.
- The assaults occurred in May and June in Horley as he cycled past three women, with the judge noting psychological harm and reports that he blew a kiss after one attack.
- Following his August 20 conviction, roughly 200 protesters gathered outside the hotel where he had been staying; in probation interviews he claimed unfamiliarity with UK laws and blamed faulty brakes, which victims rejected.