Daily Mail
November 6, 2013
A doctor from Pakistan has been jailed after drunkenly assaulting a young woman whom he had followed off a bus.
Ali Ehsan had arrived in Britain just a month before the attack, which took place when he had been drinking heavily because he was away from his family during the Islamic festival of Eid.
The married 31-year-old sat next to the woman and put his hand on her thigh, then followed her when she alighted from the bus.
He grabbed her and sexually assaulted her, at which point she kneed him in the groin and ran away.
Ehsan, a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, was caught after police issued CCTV images of him on the bus during the incident on August 10.
He pleaded guilty to sexual assault and was given an eight-month prison sentence at Bournemouth Crown Court.
A judge heard that Ehsan had left his family for the first time a few weeks earlier after he landed the prestigious hospital job.
His defence lawyer said he was ‘a fish out of water’ in Britain and was not used to drinking alcohol.
Anita Gibson-Lee, prosecuting, said that the incident took place on a night bus on the outskirts of Bournemouth around 11pm.