24-year-old Brwa Shorsh allegedly shoved Polish postman Tadeusz Potoczek off the platform at Oxford Circus station on February 3. As the perpetrator said the Pole gave him a “dirty look”. Mr Potoczek was on his way home via central London and looking up at a notice board when he was attacked.

Fortunately, an experienced train driver Robert Walker was able to use the emergency brake after spotting Mr Potoczek lying on the rails. The train travelled 38 miles per hour and two of its carriages had already entered the platform.

Shorsh actions were described as “shocking and random violence”. The prosecutor, Sam Barker, said that tragedy was avoided almost by miracle.

“The prosecution says there is only one reason you would push someone in front of a train and that is to kill them,” the prosecutor described the motive. 

Shorsh listened to the hearing through a Kurdish interpreter and pleaded not guilty to attempted murder.

“If he [the driver] had looked away for a few seconds, he [Potoczek] would have been killed,” the prosecution added.

As Shorsh testified before the court, he believed three women were being rude to him and then thought Mr Potoczek had “given him a look”.

The accused listened to the hearing through a Kurdish interpreter and pleaded not guilty to attempted murder.

The trial will now continue before the Inner London Crown Court. 

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Source: GBNews

Tomasz Modrzejewski