A manhunt has been launched by police after a woman was sexually assaulted on the Underground in East London.Police received reports that a female passenger was attacked by a man on the Jubilee line at around 7.30 pm on Friday, May 22. The attacker left Stratford station following the incident and is yet to be found nearly two months on. British Transport Police (BTP) has now released an image of a man in connection with their investigation.'Detectives believe the man in the image may have information that could assist their ongoing investigation,' the force said in a statement.The man is wearing a black t-shirt, camouflage print trousers, sunglasses, and a distinctive red baseball cap with Super Bowl written across the front.He is also carrying a backpack with black straps and wearing white wired earphones.It comes as new statistics reveal that crime on London's public transport network has risen by almost 50 per cent since the pandemic - with 'unacceptable' levels of violence against women and girls, according to a devastating new report. Police received reports that a female passenger was attacked by a man on the Jubilee line at around 7.30 pm on Friday, May 22. British Transport Police (BTP) has now released an image of a man in connection with their investigationThe London Assembly's Police and Crime Committee has published a new report that suggests people are increasingly anxious about using buses, Tubes and trains to get across the capital for fear of falling victim to crime.Around 48,000 crimes were reported across Transport for London (TfL) services in 2025 - up 46 per cent against a pre-pandemic average of 16,544.The figure was released as part of a new report examining the capital's approach to tackling spiralling rates of violence against women and girls (VAWG) and hate crime across the transport network, which the committee found 'unacceptable'.Its findings are calamitous for London's transport and policing bodies and for Mayor of London Sadiq Khan: the committee's chair, Marina Ahmad, said that while she expected 'to find a problem, what we found was a crisis'.Seven in 10 Londoners are choosing not to travel, or not to travel at certain times of the day, 'because they were worried about their personal security', Tricia Hayes of London TravelWatch told the committee.This may go some way to explaining why, as official TfL statistics suggest, passenger journeys fell by 2.4 per cent in the second half of 2025.Between 2023 and 2025, crimes reported on the Underground rose 12.5 per cent, while they rose 60.4 per cent on the newest part of the network, the Elizabeth Line, and rose 15 per cent on the Overground.Offences dipped three per cent on buses, 2.7 per cent on the Docklands Light Railway and 40 per cent on Trams in the same time period. Violence, public disorder and criminal damage are on the rise, while thefts are down. Overall, crime on the network has risen almost eight per cent in the last three years alone.