Muhammad Khan admits repeated vile public sex acts on women
A public masturbator who committed gross acts on women at festivals has been revealed as a high-paid financial services worker.
A serial public masturbator who ejaculated on women at festivals and on public transport has been revealed as a financial services employee earning $120,000 a year.
Muhammad Khan, 40, of Keilor, has pleaded guilty in Melbourne Magistrates Court to indecent assault and three counts of sexual touching.
Khan is a senior employee at insurance and financial services company AB Phillips where he earns $120,000 a year, the court heard.
He previously worked at Bendigo’s Kangan Institute until he lost his job in October 2019 due to the charges causing him to fail a working with children check, the court heard.
His lawyer Amelia Beech on Thursday told the court Mr Khan was a father of two children under six whose wife was standing by him.
She said the charges had a “huge impact on him”.
She said he was a “breadwinner” but feared he would lose his job at a major insurance and financial services company if a conviction was recorded for his crimes.
On February 8, 2015, a woman at the St Kilda Festival felt something warm on her back and turned around to see Khan buttoning up his pants, a police statement of facts reads.
She felt something wet and realised he had ejaculated onto her top and jeans.
On February 8, 2017, another woman was catching a tram from Flinders Street to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in the CBD when Khan touched her leg and ejaculated onto her dress.
On March 4, 2018, Khan again ejaculated onto a woman, this time at the Brunswick Festival.
She didn’t see him but he left behind his DNA.
On October 18, 2019, Khan was caught on CCTV approaching a woman from behind at the bar of the Carlton Club and grabbing her buttocks, dragging a finger up her legs.
Ms Beech told the court Khan had moved to Australia from Pakistan in 2009 where “his relationship with women was very different”.
She said he found it “overwhelming” and had anxiety over women in Melbourne after having only “fleeting” contact with the opposite sex at university in Pakistan.
She also said there was less “intimacy between him and his wife” after the couple had children.
Khan’s wife submitted a character reference to the court describing him as a hard worker, and a devoted father and husband.
He will be sentenced on Tuesday.
AB Phillips was contacted for comment.