July 2022 Pervert pretended to help a vulnerable teenager A pervert pretended to help a vulnerable teenager after she suffered a serious head injury – but instead dragged her off to a basement where he sexually assaulted her. Sharif Abbas, 31, kidnapped the 19-year-old victim after she fell down some stairs at an Underground station in central London and was left bleeding with part of her skull exposed. Instead of calling emergency services, Abbas lead the stricken woman, who also had a broken wrist, to a nearby basement where he carried out a sex attack. The sick defendant approached her when she sat down to recover and donned a TfL high-vis jacket, then after telling her to wait for him, scouted out an empty basement of a nearby building. He then brought her back to the basement, telling her he needed to examine her injuries, at which point he sexually assaulted her. The fall happened at around 6am as she walked from one platform to another at Bond Street Tube station on June 16, 2019. When Abbas entered the building’s basement he had unwittingly triggered a silent alarm and police rushed to the scene where cops found Abbas assaulting the injured woman. Officers found Abbas standing behind the victim with his hands under her clothing and the fly of his jeans undone. He took her under a covered walkway where they were not visible to passers-by at street level, police said. After police arrived, paramedics took the woman to a hospital in west London where she had surgery for a broken wrist and was treated for her serious head injury. She has since made a full recovery, according to the Met Police. When Abbas was interviewed by detectives, he said it did not occur to him to press an emergency button nearby as he was trying to help her. He also walked past at least three other emergency buttons, police said. He claimed he tried to call for an ambulance in the Tube station, but could not get signal. Abbas also added the victim asked him not to call for an ambulance. But this was not the case as he had his phone to his ear throughout the 45 minutes he was the woman. No 999 call was made nor did he administer any first aid, police said. The high-vis vest he wore was one he used when working on bus passenger surveys two years earlier, but at the time of the attack he was unemployed. Abbas told detectives he carried it with him for use if he went running or in case he came across “an accident or something”. He claimed that he had taken her into the basement in order to check her body for cuts and bruises, after which he was going to help her, yet he stated he had no medical training, nor had he taken any actions to address her significant head wound. At Southwark Crown Court on Friday, July 15, Abbas, from Haringey, north London, was jailed and four years after being found guilty of kidnap and sexual assault at an earlier hearing. Sentencing Abbas, Judge Gregory Perrins said: “I have no doubt that had they [the police officer] not attended in that moment, you [Abbas] would have gone on to commit a more serious sexual assault.” As the trial took place during Covid restrictions, the victim had to fly back to the UK and quarantine in order to give evidence in court