Algerian Illegal With Fake ID Jailed For Nightbus Sex Assault On Young Woman

An Algerian illegal overstayer, who assumed a new identity, has been locked-up for pursuing a lone young woman on a night bus and forcibly kissing her.

Youva Boudaoud, 30, used graphic sexually-explicit language towards the 21 year-old, who was forced to change seats, but was followed by the defendant.

French-speaking kitchen porter Boudaoud, of Balham High Street, Balham used a bogus Belgian identity card to remain in the UK and illegally work at a local restaurant.

He pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the woman on the N155 bus at approximately 4.15am on November 19, last year.

Boudaoud, who needed an interpreter, also pleaded guilty to possessing the false id card between January 1 and April 24 with intent.

He also admitted fraud by false representation between the same dates, namely using the id card to obtain employment and possessing £3,000 in criminal property, namely his wages on April 25.

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police’s Roads and Transport Policing Command released images of Boudaoud from the bus’s CCTV on February 21.

He was identified to the police by his female boss, who had read the victim was left “very shaken”, and was arrested at his home address on April 24.

Judge Judith Coello told Boudaoud at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court yesterday: “This was a particularly unpleasant and nasty offence.

“You can accurately be described as a sex pest. You deliberately targeted this young woman on that bus and it must have been extremely frightening for her.

“You sat next to her and engaged in foul and disgusting language and first kissed her on the cheek and then on the lips.

‘This was disgusting, boorish, unacceptable behaviour. She had no escape and she was a lone female.”

Regarding the identity fraud the judge told him: “It was deliberate and calculated on your part.”

Boudaoud was sentenced to seventeen weeks imprisonment for the sexual assault, plus another twenty weeks to run consecutively for the identity fraud offences.

He will have to sign the sex offenders register for seven years.

Because the total sentence of thirty-seven weeks was below one year Boudaoud will avoid the automatic trigger for deportation to his native Algeria.