Police are searching for a mum caught masturbating on a train, by a fellow passenger after she failed to appear in court.
Sarah Hinkson, 37, draped herself across four seats on the Hammersmith and City line while touching herself and moaning loudly.
Anthony Burton noticed the women was groaning and stamping her feet as her hands moved in a gyratory fashion.
“I was quite taken aback,” he said.
Hinkson’s hand was still down her trousers when she was arrested by police officers at King’s Cross Station.
Mr Burton, who is visually impaired in one eye, told City of London Magistrates’ Court he boarded at Paddington and was escorted into the front carriage with his guide dog by London Underground staff.
He said:
“I was suddenly aware of a banging noise and I thought it was something mechanical, but I noticed that to my right there was a lady who was laying out across three or four seats.
“She was banging her foot against the seat or the glass which was making the noise. “There was not anybody standing in the way. I could see her quite clearly.”
Mr Burton was asked whether his impaired vision had affected what he had seen.
“I tend to turn my head to look at things so I could clearly see her,” he continued.
“Her boots were on the floor beside her and the next thing I noticed about her was her hand and where her hand was. “All I could see of her hand was the top of her wrist area because the rest of her hand was in her trousers.
“It was around her crotch, it was blatantly obvious which part of her body it was. “Her hands were moving back and forth in a sort of gyratory movement. “She wasn’t saying anything but there were moans and groans of a sexual nature. I was quite taken aback.”
Noticing that there were children nearby who could witness the sex act Mr Burton rang the police.
Police attended at King’s Cross station approximately ten minutes after Mr Burton first saw the 37-year-old.
The court heard how the mother-of-one was mostly unresponsive in her interview but denied masturbating.
When asked what she was doing, Hinkson told officers:
“Rash on my inner thigh. I was scratching a rash on my inner thigh. It comes and goes’
Hinkson, of St Andrew’s Road, Acton, denied but was convicted of one count of outraging public decency by behaving in an indecent manner, namely masturbating on February 24.
She did not attend court and a warrant has been issued for her arrest.
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