Most cases of sexual assault on London's Underground network take place during rush hour, latest figures show, busting the myth that women are most at risk during late night hours.
British Transport Police (BTP) statisticsshow between January 2014 and December 2015, 322 sexual assaults were reported on the Tube during the evening peak post-work travel period of 5pm to 7pm.
There were a further 291 reports to BTP during the 8am to 10am commute-to-work time over the same period in 2014-15.
In contrast 110 assaults were reported between 11pm and 1am, busting the myth that women were most at risk late at night.
"Significant work has taken place to encourage reporting of sexual offences on trains and tubes under the successful 'Report it to Stop it' campaign," a BTP spokesperson said.
Cases of sexual assault on transport networks across Europe have been in the limelight in recent weeks after hundreds of women complained of attacks in Cologne, Germany, on New Year's Eve.
Today it led to Cologne's police chief Wolfgang Albers being told by the state's interior minister, Ralf Jaeger, that he would be given early retirement after the 60-year-old was criticised over his force's handling of the violence.
Police have identified 31 suspects, of whom 18 are asylum seekers, the German interior ministry said.
The suspects include nine Algerians, eight Moroccans, four Syrians, five Iranians, two Germans, an Iraqi, a Serb, and an American, a spokesman for the ministry said.
News of the arrests came as police in Finland and Switzerland reported similar sex attacks on women over the New Year.
Three asylum seekers have been arrested in Helsinki and Finnish police said they had received information that groups of asylum seekers planned to harass women in the city.
Police in Zurich said six women had reported being sexually assaulted and robbed on New Year's Eve in cases "a little similar" to those in Germany.
There have been reports of similar attacks in cities across Germany and in neighbouring Austria.
