A woman was grabbed and sexually assaulted while travelling on the Tube in central London.
The attack happened at London Bridge Underground station, one of the busiest stations in the country.
A woman was targeted shortly after midnight on Wednesday, July 16, after a stranger approached her.
After walking up to her, the man then grabbed her by the neck and sexually assaulted her.
The suspected attacker is still on the run.
Detectives believe the man in the CCTV footage could have vital information that could help with the investigation.
British Transport Police said as part of the appeal: ‘Just after midnight on Wednesday 16 July 2025, a man approached a woman in the station and grabbed her by the neck before sexually assaulting her.’
Anyone who recognises the man is asked to contact the force.
How safe is the Tube?
Crime on the TfL network has shown an uptick this year, while passenger numbers have decreased slightly.
There were 23,819 offences across the Tube, buses, the Elizabeth line, Overground, DLR and trams in the first half of 2025 – compared with 23,519 incidents same time last year.
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The majority of the incidents happened on the Underground (12,416), followed by buses and the Elizabeth line.
Sexual offences have also risen from 879 between January and June last year to 907 this year, the latest TfL figures show.
This means that the rate of sexual offences per million passenger journeys was 0.5.
The most common type of sexual crime was sexual assault, defined as non-consensual touching or contact.
TfL said: ‘The level of sexual offences reported on our public transport networks is low, but we recognise that this behaviour is underreported.
‘We have been working to make it easier to report offences and improve
confidence to do so for many years. This important work continues.’
Most of the sexual offences in the first six months of 2025 happened in Westminster, with 95 reports, followed by Camden with 77 incidents and Tower Hamlets with 56 reports.
Stratford and King’s Cross have the highest number of offences committed at the stations, with nine at each station.
TfL said the key time for sexual offending was in the afternoon and commuter travel times between 4pm and 8pm.
Siwan Hayward, TfL’s director of security, policing and enforcement, told Metro: ‘Millions of journeys are made every day on London’s public transport network without incident and the overall risk of witnessing or experiencing a crime on London’s transport network remains low.
‘We have more than 500 uniformed officers deployed across our network and they are continuing to work closely with the Met Police and British Transport Police to keep the public safe. In the last year, we have seen a significant reduction in robbery levels by 18.6 per cent and a slight reduction in theft.
‘The overall crime rate on TfL services is also much lower than the rate for the national rail network.
‘The Met and BTP continue to focus efforts on tackling highest harm offences, that means all forms of violence against women and girls, serious violence, keeping weapons off the network, robbery, hate crime and work-related violence and aggression.
‘We are committed to working with the police to prevent crime and reduce offending, so that every journey made in London is safe and feels safe, and we have set an ambitious target to reduce the risk of being a victim of crime to fewer than nine crimes for every million by 2030.’
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