Sex attacker jailed for targeting women on London Underground
The attacks took place over a two week period in 2021
A London man who targeted women on the London Underground and sexually assaulted them has been jailed.
Mohammad Yahia Alloush, 26, of High Road, NW10, admitted attacking three female travellers over the course of two weeks in 2021.
The first attack took place on 5 September, when Alloush was seen on CCTV loitering around Dollis Hill Underground Station for around 20 minutes while looking at passengers exiting the station.
Police later tracked his movements on CCTV as he followed a woman down a number of nearby streets before violently attacking and sexually assaulting her.
The second attack occurred on 11 September when a woman was returning home from meeting friends at around 22:30. She walked out of the subway at the same station and was in a nearby street when she was confronted by Alloush. He was riding a Santander hire bicycle and had been cruising the nearby area potentially on the look-out for a victim.
Alloush demanded money and then sexually assaulted the woman before her cries attracted the attention of nearby residents. Alloush ran off before police arrived.
On 16 September Alloush was seen leaving Neasden Underground Station at approximately 19:30. At 22:27hrs he was seen on CCTV walking towards his next victim in a nearby alleyway. He attacked his victim and sexually assaulted her.
He was later arrested by the Metropolitan Police’s North West Predatory Offender Unit on his way to work as a labourer. A number of addresses linked to him were searched. During these searches offices found a distinctive black and white striped T-shirt worn in the first attack.
DC Matthew Chapman from the Met Police says, "Mohammed Alloush is a cowardly, predatory offender, who appeared unafraid of attacking women who he had picked out near underground stations.
"His offending was apparently escalating when he was caught and areas of North West London are all the safer for him being in prison."
Alloush has been sentenced to four years and 11 months in prison, and police were granted a Sexual Harm Prevention Order which prevents Alloush being within 50 metres of any underground, train station or bus stop in London between 19:00hrs and 07:00hrs until 2030.