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Transport Police Intensify CCTV Appeals After Surge in Tube and Metro Attacks

Fresh CCTV stills target suspects in a wide-ranging spate of unsolved crimes on Tube and Metro lines

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Overview

  • British Transport Police have issued CCTV appeals for suspects including a topless man on a June 30 Jubilee line train and a man wanted in connection with a June 16 assault on the Elizabeth line.
  • Investigators released images of two people of interest over a June 7 bottle attack on a Good Samaritan at Peckham Rye and a June 4 assault on a Metro driver at South Hylton.
  • Northumbria Police circulated images of two men they wish to trace after a May 1 assault at Newcastle Central Station and two suspects in a racially motivated attack at North Shields on July 29.
  • Commuters tackled a man exposing himself on a District line service near East Ham on August 7, and he was arrested by an off-duty officer before being detained under the Mental Health Act.
  • Transport for London recorded over 800 sexual assault reports on the Underground in 2024, prompting expanded zero-tolerance campaigns, data-led safety drives and bystander-intervention measures.