Man guilty of Tube attack

A man has been convicted of attempted murder after pushing a stranger off a crowded Tube platform into the path of an oncoming train.

Osei Kwaku was shoved on to the tracks at Finsbury Park station, north London, on 4 November 2001, just as a train was pulling in.

He escaped being crushed to death by lying in the well beneath the tracks as the train went over him.

When the train pulled out, Mr Kwaku was able to climb back onto the platform and was treated in hospital for electrical burns to his leg.

On Thursday paranoid schizophrenic Simeon Stephenson was ordered to be detained indefinitely at Rampton high security hospital.

What you did was utterly horrifying Judge Graham Boal

He was convicted of attempted murder, wounding and causing grievous bodily harm in relation to attacks on five people during two weeks.

Stephenson, of no fixed address, had denied the offences but was found guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey.

The court heard that after the attack on Mr Kwaku, Stephenson hit another man in the face with a claw hammer at King's Cross station.

He was caught when Tube staff and the victim chased after him.

Stephenson had also cut a pensioner with broken glass, hit a friend with a snooker cue and assaulted a man with a barbecue fork.

Judge Graham Boal told him: "What you did was utterly horrifying."

He said it was a "miracle" the 23-year-old had not been facing a murder charge.