women

In her long career, Ms Yadav also got the opportunity to mentor aspiring train operators, many of them women.

Anger had been growing, but what galvanised the movement was the death over a number of days in mid-September of eight women in a maternity ward of a hospital in the southern city of Agadir.

One of the women in the crowd - and it was nearly all women - was Zara McIntosh.

"He joked about the niqab, and women driving. He also did a skit about how people in Riyadh think they are god's gift to earth."

Subramanian called the letter "inappropriate", and thanked the "strong women" for coming forward with the allegations against Combs, telling them they weren't "just speaking to 12 men and women in the jury box".