Serial flasher who targeted lone women on the Tube is jailed
A sexual predator who repeatedly flashed lone women travelling on the Tube has been jailed for eight months.
Matheus Prestes, 30, targeted his victims on the Bakerloo line in a spree lasting four months from June to October last year.
He admitted eight counts of exposure at Inner London Crown Court earlier this month.
The British Transport Police (BTP) praised the bravery of the women in coming forward to report the pervert.
BTP Sergeant James Ashby said: ‘Prestes repeatedly targeted women on the London Underground in deliberate and predatory acts.
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‘His behaviour was disturbing, persistent, and entirely unacceptable. It is down to these brave women reporting these incidents that we were able to piece together his spree of offending and put him behind bars.’
Prestes’s first reported incident took place at around 7pm on Saturday, June 21, when he stepped off a Bakerloo line service at Baker Street, turned around and exposed himself while staring at a woman still on board the train.
Days later, on June 25, he again exposed himself and began masturbating in front of another woman on a southbound Bakerloo line service.
When she told him she was reporting his actions to the police, he quickly got off the train at Edgware Road.
On Sunday, July 6, at around 6pm, Prestes targeted another lone woman on a Bakerloo line service near Kenton.
After exposing himself on board the train, he got off, stood on the platform, and stared at her while masturbating.
Then, on Tuesday, August 5, he walked along a Tube carriage before he exposed himself to a woman near Lambeth North.
Later that month, on Friday, August 22, another woman reported that Prestes had exposed himself to her between Oxford Circus and Waterloo before masturbating in her eyeline and leaving the train.
On Saturday, October 11, he targeted three women in a day, again on Bakerloo line trains. On each occasion he exposed himself to a lone woman and immediately got off the train.
Sgt Ashby said: ‘This sentence reflects the seriousness of his actions. ‘Passengers can be reassured that we will always take reports of sexual offences seriously, act quickly to identify offenders, and work tirelessly to bring them before the courts.’
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