A man who grabbed a young woman’s hair and asked “can I kiss you” while on a train to London has been convicted of sex-based harassment . It is the first charge of its kind since the law was changed, and was brought by the British Transport Police. David Stroud, 44, pleaded guilty at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on Thursday to harassing the woman because of her sex. The court heard that he made sexually motivated comments to her on board a train to London on 3 April, two days after the law, banning harassment motivated by a person’s sex, came into force. Prosecutor Paul Okebu told the court that Stroud sat next to the woman, who was on the phone to her boyfriend at the time, on a train which left Hastings around 8.50pm. Stroud tried to make conversation with the young woman, who tried to ignore him. The court heard that Stroud, of Dartford, Kent, was “constantly leaning on to the woman” and got closer, telling her “you’re magical” and grabbing her hair, which the victim “perceived to be sexual”.…