Man found guilty of attempted murder after shocking CCTV shows postman being pushed onto Tube tracks [Video]

A man accused of pushing a Tube passenger onto the tracks has been found guilty of attempted murder after shocking CCTV was shown in court.

Kurdish migrant Brwa Shorsh, 24, shoved stranger Tadeusz Potoczek, 61, at Oxford Circus Underground station in central London on 3 February.

Mr Potoczek, a postal worker who was on his way home from work, narrowly missed touching the live rail on the southbound Victoria line.

He was helped back up to the platform by another passenger, and the driver of an oncoming train has said that “if he had been on the track a few seconds later, he would have been killed”, Inner London Crown Court heard.

Mr Justice Kelleher told the defendant: “You have been found guilty of attempted murder, which is a very serious offence, …