Overview
- British Transport Police published CCTV images of five men and appealed for help identifying them in connection with separate December assaults on the network.
- At Bank station just after midnight on December 21, two men were chased by a group and attacked, leaving one victim in hospital with a fractured skull after being pushed head-first into a staircase.
- In a late-December incident on a Metropolitan line train to Northwick Park, a commuter who intervened to protect an elderly passenger was slashed above the eyebrow with a knife and robbed of his bag.
- Investigators asked anyone with information to text 61016 or call 0800 40 50 40, citing reference 25 of 21 December for the Bank case and 607 of 29 December for the Northwick Park case, or to contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
- Coverage also notes a separate November 20 case at Balham where a primary-school-age girl was struck, which police referenced as part of wider ongoing inquiries.