Claim: A man was sentenced to 22 weeks in prison after a woman reported him for "continuously staring" at her on a train.
Fact-check: Man wasn't jailed only for staring at a woman on the train - Full Fact
Verdict: this only tells part of the story. the man in question was jailed under the public order act for "causing intentional harassment, alarm or distress", after staring at a woman and then also blocking her exit when she tried to leave.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Sarah Turnnidge
Date published: 2022-05-06T00:00:00