A bond street jeweller who crept up behind women on Tube escalators and slashed their skirts with scissors to expose their underwear has escaped jail. Ian Dave Rosenberg, 48, was instead given a six-month jail sentence suspended for two years and ordered to pay £9,000 compensation to his three victims.
One of them had not even realised what had happened until she got to work to find her skirt cut and her underwear showing, City of Westminster magistrates court was told.
Rosenberg, 48, of Farnham, Surrey, who holds a managerial post at an undisclosed shop, admitted committing the offences in January at Green Park Tube station.
He handed himself in to police after the cases were featured on BBC's Crimewatch programme.
He declined to answer any questions but apologised for the distress he caused to his victims in a written statement.
Sentencing Rosenberg, District Judge Quentin Purdy said: 'This is undoubtedly a bizarre case and what caused you to behave like this may never be known.
Perhaps your skill as a jeweller enabled you to do what you did?'
Rosenberg has also been placed on the sex offenders' register and ordered to seek psychiatric help.