A homeless man who pushed a Tube passenger onto the tracks at one of London’s busiest underground stations has been found guilty of attempted murder.

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

Mr Potoczek, a postman 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.

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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.

He was found guilty by a jury after 32 minutes of deliberations.

Mr Justice Kelleher told Shorsh: “You have been found guilty of attempted murder, which is a very serious offence, and a long prison sentence will follow.”

Shorsh will be sentenced on 26 September.

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