Brave commuters on the Elizabeth Line came to the rescue of a fellow passenger who was being slapped and insulted by a feral stranger – before forcing the attacker to apologise.
Stomach-churning footage shows an unidentified man slapping another passenger on board a service from Forest Gate towards central London on Thursday.
Wearing sunglasses, he can be heard hurling insults before hitting the man on the face and beginning to walk away.
However, other passengers then rush to the victim’s defence – with one fearless woman shouting ‘leave him alone, get off the f***ing train’.
Another male passenger says ‘why did you hit him?’
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