Police hunt man wearing Super Bowl baseball cap after woman sexually assaulted on Jubilee line train
Police launched a manhunt after a woman was sexually assaulted on the tube in East London.
The police received reports that a female passenger was attacked by a man on the Jubilee line at around 19.30 on Friday, May 22.
The attacker left Stratford station after the incident and has still not been found nearly two months later.
British Transport Police (BTP) have released an image of a man in connection with the investigation.
“Detectives believe the man in the image may have information that could assist in the ongoing investigation,” police said in a statement.
The man wears a black T-shirt, camouflage-patterned pants, sunglasses, and a distinctive red baseball cap with Super Bowl written on the front.
He also carries a backpack with black straps and wears headphones with white wires.
New statistics reveal crime on London’s public transport network has increased by almost 50 per cent since the pandemic, according to a devastating new report. This increase includes ‘unacceptable’ levels of violence against women and girls.
Police received reports that a female passenger was attacked by a man on the Jubilee line at around 19.30 on Friday, May 22. British Transport Police (BTP) have now released a photo of a man in connection with the investigation.
The London Assembly Police and Crime Committee has published a new report suggesting people are increasingly worried about using buses, tubes and trains to get across the capital for fear of falling victim to crime.
Nearly 48,000 crimes reported at Transport for London (TfL)) services increased by 46 percent in 2025 compared to the pre-pandemic average of 16,544.
The figure was revealed as part of a new report examining the capital’s approach to tackling rising rates of violence against women and girls (VAWG) and hate crime on transport networks, which the committee found ‘unacceptable’.
Its findings are disastrous for London’s transport and policing agency and London Mayor Sadiq Khan: committee chair Marina Ahmad said ‘where we expected to find a problem, what we found was a crisis’.
Tricia Hayes of London TravelWatch told the committee that seven in 10 Londoners choose not to travel or travel at certain times of the day because they are ‘concerned for their personal safety’.
This may help explain why passenger journeys are down 2.4 per cent in the second half of 2025, as official TfL statistics suggest.
Between 2023 and 2025, reported crimes on the Underground increased by 12.5 percent, while on the Elizabeth Line, the newest part of the network, they increased by 60.4 percent and on the Overground by 15 percent.
Over the same period, crime fell by 3 per cent on buses, 2.7 per cent on Docklands Light Railway and 40 per cent on Trams.
While violence, disruption of public order and criminal damage are increasing, thefts are decreasing. Overall, crimes on the network have increased by almost eight percent in the last three years alone.
The report focuses on efforts to combat hate crime and violence against women and girls (VAWG). Almost a fifth of all public transport crime reports in 2025, 4,593, were VAWG-related and the other 1,724 were hate crime incidents.
Only a few incidents resulted in charges, and a suspect could not be identified in 58 percent and 66 percent of VAWG and hate crime incidents, respectively.
The actual number of incidents is likely to be higher: people are unlikely to come forward to report them because they do not trust the authorities to take action. London TravelWatch estimates that up to 80 percent of incidents go unreported.
Almost half (45 per cent) of travelers say they are ‘very’ or ‘quite concerned’ about being harassed while commuting, and more than half say they have little or no confidence in TfL, the Met and BTP to take action.
This recently led a campaigner to call for the return of ‘women-only’ carriages as seen in the early days of the railways.
Referring to the British Transport Police’s oft-repeated slogan, Camille Brown humorously wrote in her online petition to TfL: ‘We see it all the time, we say it, but it’s still not resolved’.
The parliamentary committee recommended TfL, BTP and the Metropolitan Police create a joint rapid response taskforce as incidents of hate crime and VAWG occur and publish an annual survey on how to respond to such crimes.
Commander Clair Kelland, the Met’s public protection lead, told the Mail the force was training officers on how to better respond to VAWG incidents.
‘As this report highlights, there is more to be done to make women feel safer on transport in London; “That’s why we will continue to work closely with TfL, BTP and local partners,” he added.
BTP said tackling hate crime and VAWG remains its ‘number one priority’.
A spokesman said: ‘We know reporting crime should be easy and confidential and we’re proud of our text 61016 service, which allows passengers to report crime to us confidentially and free of charge.
‘Last year we had a 20 per cent increase in reports; This has shown us that more passengers know how to report crimes to us and have the confidence to do so knowing they will be believed and taken seriously.’
TfL has launched a new campaign encouraging people to ‘act like a friend’ and intervene when it is safe to do so. Last year it launched a special task force to combat hate crime and VAWG.
It comes after a BBC investigation revealed British Transport Police were struggling to detect sex offenders due to faulty or non-existent CCTV cameras.
Of the 562 reported investigations into alleged sex crimes involving CCTV evidence in 2025, 250 either did not have CCTV or were of unusable quality.
