CCTV images released to catch terrors on trains

Jul 11 2009 by Edward Chadwick, Birmingham Mail

TRANSPORT police today appealed for the public’s help as they released a rogues’ gallery of CCTV images of suspects.

Two men who groped terrified female rail passengers on a late-night journey are being hunted by police.

Officers also appealed for help to identify a racist thug who punched a train conductor after he was challenged for failing to pay a fare.

And police also released details of three teenagers wanted after a 46-year-old man was headbutted and kicked by a gang between Northfield and Five Ways station on May 24.

The two women, aged 22 and 25, were groped as they boarded the 10.49pm service at Coventry on March 27.

Transport police officers based in Birmingham said the men they wanted to speak to were Asian and in their late teens or early 20s.

In an unrelated incident, a train conductor was punched after a passenger was challenged for failing to pay a fare on the 12.57pm Redditch to Lichfield Trent Valley service on June 13.

After being asked to leave when refusing to pay, the youth remained on the train to Alvechurch and racially abused the conductor before punching him in the face.