British preacher gropes Japanese women on train

Chikan. AKA groping. It’s a real Japanese tradition. But that doesn’t mean you have to be Japanese to do it. When in Rome, as they say.

Now a foreigner has been caught copping a feel on a young Japanese woman on a JR train. Not only was this foreigner a British “gentleman” but he was also… a preacher!

Apparently this man of the cloth is 48 but was doing most unholy things to the legs and breasts of the 22-year-old female office worker sitting next to him one day on a train in Shiga on September 14th.

This wasn’t just a little fondle. This was a 25-minute afternoon groping session.

Martin Crowhurst then made the incredible decision to get off at the same station (Kibukawa) as his victim, where she naturally told the nearest member of staff about his wandering hands.

We are used to Catholics being bad boys but this guy was a Protestant. The man is said to be a member of the Sekai Fukuin Dendoudan (World Gospel Mission), which is a missionary church in the Shiga area. We don’t think his church will be getting many converts with this kind of behavior.

Martin Crowhurst denies the charges. “I might have touched her but it wasn’t intentional.”