Deported Illegal Returns to Carry out Sex Attacks

A Nigerian illegal immigrant who was deported for sexually assaulting women returned to Britain on a false passport in order to continue his campaign of sexual crimes.

Yesterday he was jailed for just fifteen months for a string of eight sex offences. One of the victims was a seventeen year old schoolgirl:

An illegal immigrant deported for a string of sex attacks was jailed for 15 months today after he returned using a fake passport to target more women.

Daniel Samson, 44, initially came to Britain 10 years ago on a family visa obtained in Germany.

He was first imprisoned for 15 months in 2002 for groping a total of 18 women in the street.

After his release he was driven to Heathrow and put on a plane to Lagos, Nigeria, London's Southwark Crown Court heard.

But he later slipped back into Britain to commit a further eight sex offences against bus passengers, including fondling a 17-year-old schoolgirl, between last September and January this year, Nick Wells, prosecuting said.

He said the crop-haired defendant used his fake passport to get a job as a London Underground cleaner and then 'followed the same pattern' in his latest crime spree.

Apart from the teenager all of the victims were in their 20s, including some at college or university.

Having boarded a bus he would sit next to a woman on her own, expose himself, nudge them to get them to notice he was performing a sex act, and then apologise repeatedly.

On one occasion he woke up his 'shocked and distressed' victim to show her what he was doing, while on two others he 'boxed the passengers in their seats' when they tried to escape.

The barrister told the court he usually left if other passengers got on or noticed what he was doing, although a couple of times he briefly followed those he had targeted when they got off.

Finally, at the end of January, he targeted the schoolgirl.

Mr Wells said after he began 'playing with himself', he sexually touched the horrified youngster.

He did not stop until she threatened to call the police and after he left, she called 999.

Officers tracked down his Oyster card number, linked it to the Barclays Bank card used to top it up, and traced him to an address in Peckham, south-east London.

Mr Wells said: 'Officers were greeted by a female who said only she and a child were there.

'But they then heard someone else in the house and found the defendant trying to leave through a window at the back.'

The barrister said London Underground was contacted and his work locker searched.

He added: 'Numerous passports were found in different names but all with his photograph in them.'

He was originally charged under one of his aliases, but after a fingerprint check linked him to the earlier offences he was properly identified.

Samson remained silent when interviewed but later pleaded guilty to seven offences of exposure and one of sexual assault.

Said by his barrister to 'want to apologise to everybody', the serial sex offender bowed his head in apparent shame as he was jailed.

Judge Anthony Pitts told him that after his deportation in 2002 the evidence suggested he had 'come back into this country on a false passport.

'You are here illegally and the second series of sexual offences in this country makes another recommendation for deportation inevitable.'

The judge said although Samson was not considered 'dangerous' in the sense that an indeterminate prison sentence could be justified, 'the sheer scale and sheer persistence of your offending' meant immediate custody was also unavoidable.

'The offences are all of a pattern, although the two occasions where you followed your victims off the bus are a cause for concern.'

The judge added that apart from his previous convictions, 'what also aggravates these new offences is the upset and anxiety and distress caused to the victims, something you don't expect to be faced with when taking public transport.'