African migrant ‘assaulted five train passengers’

A Sudanese migrant assaulted five women at train stations in Essex, a court heard. Mustafa Ghadir, 18, allegedly groped passengers in Tilbury, Westcliff-on-Sea, Benfleet, and Pitsea railway stations between 2 March and 11 July this year. Ghadir, of Grays, Thurrock, denies five counts of sexual assault on a female. Judge Lynn Griffin, KC, said: ‘In essence, this defendant would position himself close to a woman and would then touch her in a way that the Crown say was sexually motivated….