{"id":84544,"date":"2025-08-20T20:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/84544\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T20:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:54:07","slug":"migrant-26-sexually-assaulted-3-women-while-cycling-to-his-asylum-hotel-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/84544\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant, 26, sexually assaulted 3 women while cycling to his asylum hotel | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A migrant living in a four-star hotel<\/a> has been found guilty of sexually assaulting three women while cycling home from working at a car wash. Qais Al-Aswad attacked the victims over a three-week period along the same bike path in Horley, with the first taking place on May 23 at 9pm. A woman had left a nearby pub before he approached her from behind and \u201cslapped her bottom\u201d.<\/p>\n

The second attack happened on June 4, also at 9pm, when he \u201cgrabbed hold and squeezed her bottom\u201d, before the 26-year-old \u201cgrabbed [the] crotch and vaginal area\u201d of a third woman while riding his bike on June 12 at 10.45am. CCTV footage in the area caught the migrant<\/a> wearing recognisable jackets, trainers and an Air Jordan rucksack.<\/p>\n

The same clothing was found during a search of his hotel room at the Four Points By Sheraton Hotel when he was arrested on June 19.<\/p>\n

The victims, whose identities are protected, gave evidence at Staines Magistrates’ Court today.<\/p>\n

\u201cOut of nowhere, a guy cycled very closely past me and he slapped my bum and said excuse me as he did so,\u201d the first woman said, reportedly aged in her 30s.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t see his face. He was wearing a camouflage jacket.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was shocked. This has never happened to me before. It also made me feel violated that someone thought they could touch me inappropriately.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second woman, aged in her 50s, said: \u201cI was walking along when all of a sudden there was a gentleman next to me on a bike who grabbed my left bum cheek and then cycled off.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was shocked so I shouted out a couple of swear words. The cyclist turned around and looked at me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI stook my finger up, he did the same back to me and smiled before cycling off.\u201d<\/p>\n

The third victim in her 20s said: \u201cAs the cyclist went past me, they reached down and touched my vagina. I turned around and shouted at them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey turned around and looked at me and kissed the hand that they had just touched my vagina with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was shaken up instantly. It all happened incredibly quickly so I was caught off guard and just wanted to get back to my partner and daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Alan Balneaves said: \u201cIt\u2019s identification through clothing, same bicycle, similar route, cell site analysis and of course the same mode of assaulting each person.\u201d<\/p>\n

The migrant denied three counts of sexual assault by touching, claiming the man in the CCTV wasn\u2019t him, and that he was working with his cousins at the time of the offences.<\/p>\n

However, a judge found him guilty of all three offences and remanded him in custody at HMP Wandsworth for sentencing on October 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A migrant living in a four-star hotel has been found guilty of sexually assaulting three women while cycling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[50465,49,48,50462,635,50464,50461,50463,7739,82],"class_list":["post-84544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-asylum-hotel","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-court-news","tag-cycling","tag-horley","tag-migrant-crisis","tag-qais-al-aswad","tag-sexual-assault","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}