Passenger jailed for intent staring and blocking fellow passenger's exit

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[grahame]

From Get Reading

Man jailed after refusing to stop staring at woman on train between Reading and Newbury
He said she would have to climb over him to leave and spread his legs

A man who refused to stop staring at a woman on a train in Berkshire has been jailed.

Dominik Bullock sat next to the victim on a train between Reading and Newbury and began staring at her very intently. The woman asked him to stop staring several times as it was making her feel uncomfortable, but he refused.

She asked Bullock to move as he was blocking her exit, but he refused again and said she would have to climb over him, while spreading his legs. The victim, who was visibly upset, continued to ask Bullock to move out of her way but a court heard he remained emotionless and still refused.

Other passengers in the carriage also started asking Bullock to move while the victim phoned the police, but he continued to refuse during the incident at around 1.45pm on Saturday, March 5. The train manager was alerted and removed Bullock from the train at Thatcham.

Bullock was identified by a British Transport Police (BTP^▸ (British Transport Police)) officer from station CCTV^▸ (Closed Circuit Tele-Vision) and arrested on Wednesday, March 9 by Thames Valley Police officers.

The 26-year-old, of Spurcroft Road, Thatcham, was found guilty of causing intentional harassment, alarm or distress contrary to Section 4(a) of the Public Order Act. He was sentenced to 22 weeks in prison at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Thursday (March 10).

Illustrative picture - posters at Bath Spa station, photographed on 8th March.

[ChrisB]

It's about time that sentences of this severity are imposed for this sort of harassment.

This needs publicising heavily, both to warn off other predators and also to show women that this sort of behaviour is at last being taken very seriously at long, long last.

I hope he lost any job he might have.