Train predator gets eight years

A predator who attacked a terrified teenager on a train has been jailed for eight and a half years. Urfan Arshad, 44, targeted the 17-year-old after sitting opposite her on the Transpennine service to Middlesbrough on 11 December 2020. Arshad chatted to his victim, asked her personal questions and leaned forward to grab her mobile. He asked if he could use her phone and told her to unlock it but she made a call to a friend to tell her…

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