Maga influencer admits Bond Street assault

A Donald Trump-supporting influencer and PR executive has admitted to assaulting a woman by pulling her hair at a London Underground station.

Melissa Rein Lively was reported by the woman over the incident at Bond Street station on the evening of 11 October.

Rein Lively, 40, accepted a conditional caution, while an assault by beating charge against her was withdrawn, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard on Tuesday. She was not present in court.

The US national's partner Philipp Ostermann, who was with her at the Underground station, denied two racially aggravated public order offences and a further public order offence. He was released on conditional bail.

Prosecutor Lyndon Harris told the court that the "admission to the conduct alleged against her" amounts to an offence, and that Rein Lively had agreed to pay £910 in compensation.

The court heard the compensation had not yet been paid and was due in July.

Ostermann, a 37-year-old German national, is set to appear at City of London Magistrates' Court on 17 November for trial.

The court heard that the woman was with her sister and they were walking towards Bond Street station with two children, one of whom was in a pushchair.