Overview
- Javed Inamdar, 34, was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court after a jury found him guilty of assaulting a girl under 13 by touching.
- The December 14 incident occurred on a British Airways flight when the child awoke distressed and alerted crew, and police arrested Inamdar after landing at Heathrow.
- Witnesses and cabin crew testified that the girl screamed for him to stop, and the cabin manager moved Inamdar to a different seat before notifying the captain and BA security.
- Inamdar told crew he might have confused the girl for his wife and told police he had been asleep and could not remember where his hand was, suggesting any contact was accidental.
- Judge Simon Davis said Inamdar had "tested the waters" by brushing the girl's hand and noted his foreign-national status and separation from his family as mitigating factors.