November 2015 Man (30) who sexually assaulted 12 and 13-year-old girls on buses avoids prison A man who sexually assaulted two young teenage girls aged 12 and 13 years old on buses in Richmond has escaped a prison sentence. Jeewantha Mandalawalli-Acharige, 30,  was caught with the help of CCTV from the buses. He sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl on the 371 bus on Sheen Road, Richmond, on October 27 last year. On December 13 he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl on the R70 bus on Richmond Road. Mandalawalli-Acharige, of Robsart Street, Lambeth, was tracked down by the Metropolitan Police’s transport police and arrested on April 15. He was sentenced to a suspended prison sentence of eight months and will be on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years. Siwan Hayward, Transport fof London’s deputy director of enforcement and on-street operations, said: “It is through the reporting of these horrible incidents that the Roads and Transport Policing Command were able to catch and convict the perpetrator for his perverted actions.”