Man jailed for pushing postman on to Tube tracks

A man who pushed a postman in front of an oncoming Tube train has been jailed for life, with a minimum of eight years.

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00:00A man who pushed a postman in front of an oncoming tube train has been jailed for life

00:06with a minimum of 8 years.

00:08Brois-Georges, 24, was found guilty of attempted murder after shoving a 61-year-old man off

00:15the southbound Victoria Line platform at Oxford Circus station on the 3rd February.

00:21The victim, who narrowly missed touching the live rail, was helped off the tracks by a

00:25passer-by who was awarded £1,000 by the judge at Inner London Crown Court.

00:32The Crown Prosecution Service said it was impossible to imagine anything that could

00:36ever justify pushing anyone in front of a train.

00:39Georges, a Kurdish migrant who gave evidence through an interpreter, had claimed he was

00:43angry at Mr Potajic as he felt as though the postman had given him a dirty look.

00:49Maxine Gerose-Jones of the CPS said Brois-Georges attempted to kill the victim by deliberately

00:55forcefully pushing him into the path of an approaching train.