Producer admits train sex assaults

Press, 23 February 1989, Page 8

Producer admits train sex assaults

NZPA-PA London The film producer, Christopher Hambley Brown, whose box office hits include “Mona Lisa” and “Company of Wolves,” yesterday admitted three train sex assaults.

He was trapped by an amazing coincidence when he came face-to-face with one of his victims in a business meeting six months after the incident, a British court was told.

Brown, the £35,000-a--year ($100,229) managing director of Witzend Productions, escaped a jail sentence after his lawyer persuaded the magistrate he had “sorted himself out”.

The 38-year-old father of two was fined £750 ($2147) and ordered to pay two of the victims compensation of £l5O

($429) each. His arrest came after he had arranged to meet a 28-year-old theatre agent, Anne OrangeBromehead, to discuss a television sit-com project. Miss Orange-Brome-head immediately recognised him and later handed his business card he had given her to police. Brown hung his head as he pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting Miss Orange-Bromehead on the West Dulwich to Victoria British Rail train on May 6 last year.

He further admitted indecently assaulting two other women.

Miss Orange-Brome-head was on her way to work when she felt something pressing against her.

A woman witness later told her Brown had been touching her bottom.