Another Of Those 'Extremely Rare' Incidents...

...you know, the ones that seem to happen with monotonous regularity:

On April 17 last year, shortly after midnight, the victim, a man in his twenties, was sat listening to music alone on a train from London Bridge to Norwood Junction. Duncan approached him from behind and punched him to the back of the head, before asking him “do you want to die tonight?”

He went on to pull a pair of nail scissors from his pocket and lunged towards the victim’s neck, who thankfully managed to block Duncan’s forearm and deflect the impact.

The victim was able to call 999 and officers arrested Duncan at Norwood Junction station.

Ah, don't you feel enriched?

In his police interview, Duncan claimed he’d drunk a lot of Jack Daniels that night and couldn’t remember the incident.

Yeah, Sure.

Yesterday (August 8), the judge sentenced him to two years and nine months in prison.

Which makes me think he had a lot of previous.

British Transport Police Inspector Malcolm McCulloch said: “While this was a shocking attack, I would like to remind the public that unprovoked incidents such as this are thankfully extremely rare on the rail network.”

Sadly, they aren't. As a glance through the local crime reports in any newspaper will tell you.