A pervert who groped a woman at a train station because he “believed she was his ex-partner" has been spared prison time. 

Tomas Litvaitis, 44, of Montcalm Road in Charlton, was with a friend at Tottenham Hale Railway Station when he sexually assaulted a young woman. 

The victim was standing on the right-hand side of the escalator when Litvaitis came behind her and touched her bottom and vagina through her clothes, prosecutor Efstathios Divaris said. 

The woman shouted at Litvaitis, whose friend then turned round and said “are you alright?” before the pair walked off. 

She reported the incident to the station supervisor before following Litvaitis to outside the station where he was smoking. 

She took a photo of Litvaitis and his friend before reporting the incident to police, Mr Divaris said. 

The incident took place at around 9pm in the evening on August 11, 2022. 

When Litvaitis was arrested two months later he told police that from behind he mistook the woman for his ex-partner and touched her on the leg. 

“When she shouted at him, Mr Litvaitis said he thought that she was mentally ill,” Mr Divaris said. 

The woman who was sexually assaulted said she felt vulnerable and disgusted by what Litvaitis did. 

“It made me feel small,” she said. “I should not be made to feel this way.” 

The woman said she had been sexually assaulted on a previous occasion and that she’s not “used to it”. 

On this occasion she said she was determined not to let Litvaitis get away with it. 

Litvaitis, who said he works as a supervisor for a team which clears houses in the Bromley area at the end of tenancies, pleaded guilty to sexual assault and on January 2, 2024, he appeared at Inner London Crown Court. 

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Judge Jane Rowley said: “Even if I accepted that he thought the victim was his ex-partner, which I don’t because he’s married and has children back in Lithuania, there’s a misogynistic attitude here which I’m sad to say is often exhibited in men from Lithuania.” 

Judge Rowley asked Litvaitis, who was not represented in court, what he had to say for himself. 

Through an interpreter, Litvaitis said: “I don’t really know what to say. I’m very sorry. You can’t treat women like that. I’m sorry.” 

He was sentenced to a community order with 120 hours of unpaid work and 30 days of rehabilitation activity. 

Litvaitis was also told to pay £500 in compensation to the victim and to sign the sex offenders register for five years.