Alexey Ostapchuk was arrested in the women’s toilet at Cannon Street station in central London and allegedly told police: “I am willing to pay any fine.” A terrified woman fled in a panic from a train station bathroom after catching a Russian banker peering at her over a cubicle partition, a court heard.
The woman told Inner London Crown Court that she came to London for a ‘fun night’ with friends on December 10, 2021. ‘The station was about to close and there were no station workers monitoring who was going to the toilet’ said the woman. Court.
“She was wearing a short jumpsuit, which is an all-in-one outfit. So to use it, you have to remove everything. “In the cubicle next to me I noticed that something was moving at the top. It was dark in there, I didn’t realize what it was.
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I freaked out, put my clothes back on as best I could, and used the mirrors outside my cubicle to adjust them. “I remember seeing something out of the corner of my eye and seeing it on top of the cubicle.”
The woman told jurors that she “panicked” when Ostapchuk stared at her. She said, ‘I was the only one down there, it was late, alone.’ She wanted to get out of the baths. I quickly tried to get back into my outfit as fast as I could. I quickly looked in the mirror to adjust my clothes because they didn’t fit me.
‘I noticed a head looking back at me in the mirror…her head wasn’t fully exposed. He knew he was standing on the toilet. “I was looking and looking and I panicked and ran.” Ostapchuk, who attended court in a dark blue three-piece suit with four friends in the public gallery, denies voyeurism.
Richard Witcombe, the prosecutor, told the court that the prosecution was “for the purpose of sexual gratification, he observed a woman doing a private act knowing she did not consent.” “It was a Friday and [the complainant] was one of several young women who arrived at Cannon Street station that night.
“She had come with friends from Kent and they were headed for a fun night out in London. “When she left Cannon Street, she needed to use the bathroom. She wanted to use the bathroom before moving on to enjoy her time in London. She “she went down a couple of floors and along a corridor; what she was clear about was that the men’s toilets were on the left because they were signposted.
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‘She was able to go to the women’s toilets. It was also an area that was sufficiently well-lit. She ‘Went through a door to the women’s restrooms, when she entered the room, the stalls were to her left. The cubicles were for privacy. She considered that she was alone in the baths. In the room, as far as she could see, there was no one else there.
She “entered a cubicle in the middle of their range and sat down to use the bathroom. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed movement above her head and she realized that someone was watching her from the cubicle next to her.
Her reaction was to stop what she was doing. She got up, looking at herself in the mirrors in front of her, she made sure that her clothes were well adjusted before leaving the place where she was. She saw a head sticking out of the stall wall adjacent to where she’d been using the bathroom.
‘Her reaction from her at that time was to feel a sense of panic and her reaction was to move quickly from the women’s toilets. ‘She felt a sense of foreboding. Even in heels, she could move with some speed. She looked back and saw that the man who had been in the bathroom was following her.
She told her friends what happened and he walked past them and she felt at that moment that he was staring at her. She went to the front of the station and it was at that moment that she informed a member of the station staff.
“Alexey Ostapchuk returned to the station and went back to the toilets and at this stage in the moments following this, the police were called and they arrived at the station.” PC Alexander Beard arrived at the station and noted the woman’s “constant distress”, the court heard.
Ostapchuk allegedly told police: “I am ready to pay any fine.”
The prosecutor added: “For her own sexual gratification, he chose to look at her knowing that she would not know he was looking at her.” He is expected to say that he entered the women’s restroom by mistake and that she entered feeling unwell. During his time there he vomited and left without wanting to be seen.
‘We ask why to leave when he knows that he has indeed been seen. Why go back and why, when there is a police officer, admit guilt to him if he has done nothing wrong? Ostapchuk, from Allie Street, Aldgate, denies voyeurism.
The trial continues.
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