Edgware Tube flasher placed on sex offenders' register for five years

A Tube passenger from Edgware who was caught by a security camera exposing himself has been placed on the sex offenders' register for five years.
John Brookes, 56, of Blundell Road, showing his genitals to a woman while journeying on a southbound Bakerloo line service between Wembley Central and Harlesden stops on May 7 2008.
He fled the train but was recorded on a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera leaving his destination station and a print out of Brookes' face was later distributed to local officers.
Consequently, Brookes was arrested at Harlesden station a fortnight later, on May 20, after two plain-clothes police officers recognised him from the image.
He pleaded guilty to exposure at Inner London Crown Court on Friday March 13 and was ordered to attend a three-year sex offender programme and told to complete 140 hours' unpaid work.
British Transport Police PC Tom Whitton said: "While this sort of behaviour is rare on the Tube, this was an extremely unpleasant and intimidating experience for the victim.
"The large majority of people use the railway to go about their daily business, but we want to make sure that anyone who has any other intentions knows what they can expect from us."