Dramatic moment postman pushed onto tracks at Oxford Circus - before daring rescue

Описание: This is the moment a homeless man pushed a postman on to the Tube tracks at Oxford Circus station because he thought he had been given a “dirty look”.

Brwa Shorsh, 24, was sleeping on a bench on the Victoria line platform when he suddenly leapt up and shoved Tadeusz Potoczek off the platform.

Mr Potoczek, who was wearing his distinctive red Royal Mail uniform, was able to clamber back on to the platform with the help of a quick-thinking members of the public, just as a train entered the station.

Shorsh, a Kurdish migrant, admits shoving Mr Potoczek but denies attempted murder, insisting he had not intended to harm him.

The incident happened on February 3, as Mr Potoczek, 61, made his way home from work.

Giving evidence at Inner London crown court, Shorsh said he was “angry” after seeing three women on an earlier train who he believed had laughed at him for being homeless.

He told police when he was quizzed about the incident that he believed Mr Potoczek had given him a “dirty look”, and Shorsh told the court he believed the other man had been “very disrespectful to me”.

“You pushed a man in front of a train for looking at you. Do you think that was an appropriate reaction?”, asked prosecutor Sam Barker.

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