A Borough man has been sent to prison for two sexual assaults after police were able to track his movements on a TfL hire bike.
Christion Wright, 28, dragged a woman to the ground while masturbating and telling her he wanted to have sex with her in St James’ Park in Westminster on January 29, 2021. A few days later he masturbated onto a woman’s bag on a train from Waterloo Station.
Wright, from Nelson Square near Southwark Tube station, cycled off on a TfL bike after the woman in the first attack bit his hand. Officers were later able to track his movement on CCTV and found that he docked the bike on Lower Marsh on the South Bank.
He was arrested on March 5 and charged with the first assault. The police investigation that followed matched his DNA with the outstanding suspect in the second assault on the train, which took place on February 2.
Wright pleaded guilty to both counts of sexual assault at Southwark Crown Court on December 20 last year. He was sentenced on January 14 to three years and eight months on prison. Wright will also be on the sex offenders’ register for life.
Detective Constable Henh Ban Song of Central West CID said: “My colleagues and I are using all legitimate methods at our disposal to identify and convict those who commit crimes against women in the capital.
“In this case, Met officers based at Charing Cross police station used technologies including the CCTV network, financial instrument analysis and DNA matching to identify and convict the offender.”
DC Song added: “In my view, Wright’s offending may have escalated quickly and alarmingly had he not been caught so soon after the offence in St James’s Park.
“I am appealing for anyone else who may have been a victim of Wright to contact me by calling 101 with the reference 6502934/21.”