Sex Offender Hamada Salah escapes jail at Newcastle Crown Court.
A series of sex offences that took place on a TransPennine train from Leeds to Middlesborough in February 2024. The offender was Hamada Salah, a 28-year-old asylum seeker, an Egyptian national currently resident in Newcastle on Tyne.
Reported on Teesside Live
“Sex pest on Middlesbrough train showed two women pornography and sexually assaulted one. Hamada Salah targeted two strangers on a TransPennine Express train to Middlesbrough – a young woman and a pensioner.
“A train pervert left two lone female passengers shocked and shaken by showing them pornography and sexually assaulting one of them. Egyptian national Hamada Salah sexually assaulted one victim and showed both women pornography during two separate incidents on a TransPennine Express journey from Leeds to Middlesbrough in February.
“Prosecutor Joe Culley told Newcastle Crown Court Salah boarded the train at Garforth, in West Yorkshire, and sat at a table seat across the aisle from a young woman and started staring at her with his legs spread, which made her uncomfortable.
“The court heard Salah, who is seeking asylum in the UK and lives in Newcastle, sat next to the woman, who was alone in that carriage and began to rub his groin area. The woman told him her age in the hope it would deter him but his behaviour did not change. When a train guard approached, the woman left the carriage.
“Salah, 28, of Wingrove Road, Fenham, Newcastle, who has no previous convictions in the UK, admitted sexual assault in relation to his legs and feet touching the younger woman under the table and two charges under the public order act of causing harassment, alarm or distress. He was sentenced to 44 weeks, suspended for two years, with rehabilitation requirements and 200 hours unpaid work.
Judge Carolyn Scott said it must have been a “terrible ordeal” for the young woman and added: “She was on public transport and had no opportunity to escape the situation.”
“Salah was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register and abide by a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years. The sexual harm prevention order prohibits him from communicating with any unknown female on public transport unless it is a member of staff in relation to her duties. He has also been banned from deliberately touching any unknown female on public transport under the same order.
“Andrew Walker, mitigating, said Salah left his home country at the age of 14 due to civil unrest and has been isolated in the UK, with no friends, family or relationship.”
Note the sentencing: No prison time, no fines, and no deportation order. What exactly does this ‘asylum seeker’ contribute to British society? Why is he not being deported back to Egypt, the country is not a war zone, and he has not yet been granted asylum in the UK?
Note too the unbelievable excuses presented in his defence: “Salah left his home country at the age of 14 due to civil unrest and has been isolated in the UK, with no friends, family or relationship.”
How is that mitigation for the offences that this man, a 28-year-old mature man, committed in the UK? Why is there such blatant two-tier justice operating for an ‘asylum seeker’ on trial at Newcastle Crown Court in November 2024?
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Main Image: Mattbuck (category), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Inset image: British Transport Police.
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No friends or family or any other relationships. Strange how we are constantly being told that one of the main reasons for asylum seekers wanting to come to this country is because they have family here. As for having no other convictions, that could mean he has not been caught before.