Man Jailed After Sexual Assault on Birmingham-to-London Train

Overview

• A 47-year-old man, Adrian White of Willesden, harassed a group of women on a Birmingham New Street to London Euston service and sexually assaulted an 18-year-old as she stood to disembark at Coventry.
• Railway staff removed White from the train after the women reported the incident and British Transport Police later arrested him following an investigation that supplied evidence for a charge.
• The defendant pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault and was sentenced to eight months in prison and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for 10 years, with the sentence handed down on May 26.
• BTP publicly commended the victim for reporting the crime and stressed the importance of passenger reports, pointing people to its dedicated 61016 text service for railway sexual offences.
• BTP says tackling sexual offending on the railway is a priority and this prosecution highlights how staff intervention and victim reporting can lead to arrest, conviction, and longer-term monitoring of offenders.