Commuter ‘stroked schoolgirl’s thigh’ on packed train

  A commuter sexually assaulted a 12-year-old schoolgirl on a packed rush hour Tube train, a court heard. Algerian Redha Bassaid, 40 allegedly stroked the youngster’s inner thigh and grabbed her bottom as he made his way to work on a busy Northern Line train. Married dad Bassaid groped the girl her twice while ‘squeezed’ up against her after she boarded at Clapham Common on 15 June this year, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard. Bassaid, whose wife and children live in…