Tube sexual assault: Millionaire businessman groped woman's bottom 'over a few minutes' on train

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Tube sexual assault: Millionaire businessman groped woman's bottom 'over a few minutes' on train

4 days ago


James Froomberg sexually assaulted a young woman on a London Underground train

A millionaire businessman who groped a young woman for several minutes on a busy Tube train has been found guilty of sexual assault.

James Froomberg, 62, a former National Lottery commissioner, rubbed the woman's bottom with his hand as she travelled with her boyfriend on the Central Line.

A jury at Blackfriars Crown Court took two hours and 20 minutes to convict him on Tuesday afternoon.

Froomberg, of Edgware, north London, had denied the charge and claimed he was asleep at the time of the assault on 1 May.

He stood quietly in court and showed no reaction as the verdict was announced.

Froomberg is to be sentenced on 12 October after the judge Rajeev Shetty has received pre-sentence reports.

The judge said it was "unlikely" the leisure and property industry director would be imprisoned and that he could be facing a community order.

He told Froomberg, who was bailed until sentencing: "I cannot promise you, as you will appreciate, what the sentence will be, but I have alluded to what the appropriate starting point might be."

In summing up, the judge had reminded the jury of the woman's claim that "a person touched her bottom... over a few minutes and squeezed her bottom".

He said: "The prosecution say that the person who did this was the defendant. It was intentional."

Froomberg had said he was sleeping during the evening rush-hour journey and that he "cannot have done what he is accused of".

Both the woman and her boyfriend said that two other passengers - a man and a woman who have not been identified and did not give evidence in court - had seen Froomberg touching her.

The victim's boyfriend pursued the businessman after he left the Tube train and held him outside Mile End station until police arrived.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a8532906.html

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The majority of sexual assaults on the Tube are 'committed during rush hours.'

Exclusive: New figures challenge popular belief women are most at risk when travelling late at night: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a6801546.html

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Asides from telling him sharply to take his hands off you, standing on a guys toes with stiletto heels on the LU, using hairspray or perfume in his eyes, pulling the cable on your panic alarm in your handbag and holding it near his ear, kneeing him in the nuts, etc... there's other ways to make an unwanted person touching you stop without causing him serious injuries... such as using criminal identifier spray.

Otherwise, hold a very sharp pin, sharp pointed tweezers, or a portable fan directly near you so he'll hurt his fingers if he puts them near you again after you've warned him. The same tactic can be used for Roma gypsy pickpockets on the tube;- put sharp objects in your pockets... or stick a mousetrap in your coat pocket on the tube.

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[Bobby Martnen]

A little booty-smacking isn't sexual assault, Lily.

I've been smacked on the booty by females before, and it never bothered me.