Drunken sex pest groped her breast
Vile plane nuisance’s sentencing in November
A drunken plane passenger, from Stirling, was convicted on Wednesday of groping the breast of a mum travelling with her two young children seated in the row in front.
“I felt him putting his hand through the gap in the seats and he grabbed my right breast,” the woman told Isleworth Crown Court.
“On a scale of one to ten it was a five. It was not painful, but it was definitely felt.”
Saranjeet Bassi, 28, of 23 Craiglea, Causewayhead, was found guilty of sexually assaulting the woman on the Qatar Airways flight to London Heathrow on December 12, last year.
He was bailed for a pre-sentence report and will be sentenced on November 27.
She said Bassi began playing with her 18-month-old son between the seats just twenty minutes after but Bassi refused to move, later telling police to do so would be an admission of wrongdoing.
Because she was in a baby seat with a cot the mum had to remain where she was. “I was helpless, upset, I couldn’t do anything about it and had no choice, but to sit there.”
Two hours later she felt further contact from Bassi, she said. “I felt a foot rubbing my foot under the seat.”
Again she complained to the flight crew and the defendant again refused to budge.
“When he was asked to move he became quite rude and aggressive and said he had not done anything wrong and had been asleep all the time.
“I was humiliated, embarrassed and very upset.”
Bassi was arrested at Heathrow. “He denied grabbing her breast and said he was rubbing his foot on the seat in front,” prosecutor Mr. Jonathan Wright told the jury.
“He said he did not move because that would be an admission of wrongdoing.”